Quotes 821 till 840 of 10692.
-
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, -
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-
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 price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
-
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
-
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
-
A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
-
A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
-
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
-
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
-
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
-
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
-
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
-
A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
-
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
-
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 revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
-
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
All words-not famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 42)
