Famous Quotes By Paul Wellstone

 

1. A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
2. Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
3. I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
4. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
5. I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
6. I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
7. If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
8. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
9. Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
10. Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
11. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
12. Politics is not about money.
13. Politics is not about power.
14. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
15. Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
16. Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
17. Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
18. The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
19. The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
20. The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
21. The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
22. The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
23. There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
24. We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
25. What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
26. When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

 

Famous Quotes By John Podhoretz

 

1. All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
2. Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
3. Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
4. Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desir
5. If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whe
6. Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
7. Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
8. Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
9. Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
10. Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
11. Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
12. Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
13. Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
14. The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
15. The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
16. The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
17. This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
18. What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
19. While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
20. You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
21. You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
22. Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

 

Famous Quotes By Rashida Jones

 

1. Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.
2. Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
3. I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
4. I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.
5. I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
6. I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.
7. I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'
8. I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
9. I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
10. I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.
11. I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.
12. I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.
13. In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.
14. In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.
15. Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.
16. Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.
17. Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
18. Music breaks my heart constantly.
19. Music is hugely important to me.
20. My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
21. My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
22. My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
23. Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
24. There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
25. Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.
26. Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
27. You can never stop discovering music.
28. You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

 

Famous Quotes By Stephen King

 

1. A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
2. Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
3. And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
4. And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
5. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
6. Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
7. Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
8. French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
9. God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
10. I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
11. I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
12. I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
13. I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
14. I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
15. It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
16. Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
17. Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
18. Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
19. The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
20. We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
21. Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
22. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
23. What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
24. Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
25. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

 

Famous Quotes By Anatole France

 

1. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
2. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
3. An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
4. Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
5. History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
6. I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
7. In art as in love, instinct is enough.
8. Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
9. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
10. Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
11. Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
12. Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
13. No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
14. Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
15. Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
16. Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
17. That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
18. The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
19. The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
20. The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
21. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
22. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
23. To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
24. Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
25. War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
26. We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
27. What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
28. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

 

Famous Quotes By Paulo Coelho

 

1. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
2. Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
3. Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
4. Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
5. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
6. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
7. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
8. If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
9. I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
10. In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
11. I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
12. Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
13. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
14. Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
15. Music for me, it demands full concentration.
16. Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
17. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
18. Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
19. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
20. The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
21. The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
22. We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
23. When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
24. You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

 

Famous Quotes By Theodor Adorno

 

1. A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
2. An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
3. Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
4. Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
5. Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
6. Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
7. Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
8. Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
9. Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
10. He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
11. History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
12. If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
13. In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
14. Intelligence is a moral category.
15. Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
16. Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
17. No emancipation without that of society.
18. No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
19. None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
20. Normality is death.
21. Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
22. Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
23. Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
24. The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
25. The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
26. The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
27. The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
28. True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
29. Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
30. Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
31. Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

 

Famous Quotes By Doris Lessing

 

1. All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
2. For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
3. I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
4. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
5. I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
6. I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
7. I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
8. I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
9. I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
10. I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
11. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
12. It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
13. It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
14. Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
15. My father was in the First World War.
16. Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
17. September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
18. Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
19. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
20. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
21. The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
22. There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
23. There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
24. There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
25. Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
26. We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
27. What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
28. What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
29. What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
30. When there's a war, people get married.
31. When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
32. You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

 

Famous Quotes By Russell Baker

 

1. A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
2. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
3. Americans like fat books and thin women.
4. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
5. Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
6. Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
7. Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
8. Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
9. Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
10. I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
11. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
12. Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
13. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
14. Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
15. Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
16. Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
17. Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
18. Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
19. Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
20. The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
21. Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
22. What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
23. When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
24. When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
25. You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

 

Famous Quotes By John Keats

 

1. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
2. 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
3. Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
4. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
5. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
6. I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
7. I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
8. I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
9. Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
10. Love is my religion - I could die for it.
11. My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
12. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
13. Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
14. Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
15. Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
16. Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
17. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
18. Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
19. The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
20. The poetry of the earth is never dead.
21. There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
22. There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
23. There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
24. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
25. With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
26. You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

 

Famous Quotes By David Suzuki

 

1. As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
2. Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
3. Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
4. Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
5. For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
6. From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
7. Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.
8. Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
9. If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
10. If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.
11. If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
12. In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
13. Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
14. Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
15. Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
16. Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?
17. The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
18. The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
19. Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
20. We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
21. We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
22. We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

 

Famous Quotes By Richard Bach

 

1. A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.An honest God is the noblest work of man.
2. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
3. Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
4. Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
5. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
6. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
7. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
8. Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
9. I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
10. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
11. If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
12. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
13. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
14. 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.
15. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
16. Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
17. My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
18. Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
19. Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
20. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
21. The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
22. We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
23. What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
24. When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll

 

1. A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.An honest God is the noblest work of man.
2. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
3. Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
4. Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
5. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
6. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
7. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
8. Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
9. I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
10. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
11. If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
12. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
13. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
14. 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.
15. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
16. Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
17. My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
18. Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
19. Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
20. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
21. The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
22. We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
23. What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
24. When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

 

 

Famous Quotes By King Abdullah II

 

1. At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
2. Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
3. For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
4. I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
5. I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
6. I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
7. If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
8. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
9. If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
10. Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
11. It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
12. Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
13. Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
14. Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
15. The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
16. The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
17. Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
18. We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
19. We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
20. When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
21. You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Jean-Paul Sartre

 

1. Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
2. Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
3. All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
4. As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
5. Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
6. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
7. Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
8. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
9. God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
10. I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
11. I hate victims who respect their executioners.
12. I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
13. If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
14. If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
15. It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
16. Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
17. Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
18. One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
19. Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
20. Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
21. That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
22. The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
23. The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
24. There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
25. Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
26. We do not judge the people we love.
27. What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
28. When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.