Quotes 121 till 140 of 1555.
-
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
-
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
-
A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
-
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln -
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
The Scarlet Letter (1850) Ch XII -
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
-
A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
-
A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
-
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
-
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
-
A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
-
A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.
-
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
-
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
-
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
-
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
-
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
-
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
All right-hand famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)
