Quotes 941 till 960 of 2455.
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
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Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995 -
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.
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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15 -
It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109 -
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie - seem attractive by comparison.
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
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