War Quotes

• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

• If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

  Joan Baez

• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  Omar N. Bradley

• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas A. Edison

• We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

  Francois Fenelon

• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

  David Friedman

• In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

• The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

  Adolf Hitler

• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

• War would end if the dead could return.

  Stanley Baldwin

• One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• An unjust peace is better than a just war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  Salvador Dali

• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

  Albert Einstein

• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  Albert Einstein

• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

  Henry Ellis

• Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

  Euripides

• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  Ulysses S. Grant

• War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

  George Herbert

• In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

  Herodotus

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  Napoleon Hill

• I have not yet begun to fight!

  John Paul Jones

• It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

  Robert E. Lee

• Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

  Colman McCarthy

• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

  George Orwell

• The first casualty when war comes is truth.

  Hiram Johnson

• Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

• The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

  John F. Kennedy

• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

  John F. Kennedy

• One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

  Henry A. Kissinger

• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

  Thomas Mann

• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

• The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

  George McGovern

• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

  John Stuart Mill

• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

• You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

  Will Rogers

• Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

  Albert Pike

• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

  Jeannette Rankin

• Sweat saves blood.

  Erwin Rommel

• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  Carl Sandburg

• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

• When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

  Joseph Stalin

• What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

  Henry David Thoreau

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Barbara Tuchman

• All war is deception.

  Sun Tzu

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  H. G. Wells

• It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

  Fred Woodworth

• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Benjamin Spock

• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  William Westmoreland

• The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

  William Westmoreland

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Time Quotes

• For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

  Doug Larson

• And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

  Tillie Olsen

• The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

  Tillie Olsen

• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

• Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

  Pericles

• The present is a point just passed.

  David Russell

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

• Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

  Delmore Schwartz

• We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

  William Shakespeare

• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

  Henry David Thoreau

• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  Saint Augustine

• Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

  Roger Babson

• Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

  Faith Baldwin

• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

  James M. Barrie

• Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  Edmund Burke

• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• The time I kill is killing me.

  Mason Cooley

• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

• Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

  William Faulkner

• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

• Time is money.

  Benjamin Franklin

• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

• Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

  Kahlil Gibran

• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  C. S. Lewis

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

• Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Time is the longest distance between two places.

  Tennessee Williams

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Technology Quotes

• Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

  Stewart Alsop

• In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

  John Perry Barlow

• Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

  John Perry Barlow

• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

  John Perry Barlow

• The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

  John Perry Barlow

• We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

  John Perry Barlow

• You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

  John Perry Barlow

• Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

  Dave Barry

• Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

  Jimmy Carter

• Technology has to be invented or adopted.

  Jared Diamond

• The internet is a great way to get on the net.

  Bob Dole

• It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

  Esther Dyson

• Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

  Freeman Dyson

• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

  Albert Einstein

• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

• Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

• The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

  Dennis Gabor

• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

• And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

  William Gibson

• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

  William Gibson

• Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

  William Gibson

• For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

  William Gibson

• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

  Theodor Adorno

• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

  Jean Arp

• The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

  Dave Barry

• Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

  Al Boliska

• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  Omar N. Bradley

• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

  Wernher von Braun

• The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

  Andrew Brown

• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

• What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

  Arnold H. Glasow

• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

  Graham Greene

• Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

  Andy Grove

• Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

  Andy Grove

• Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

  Andy Grove

• Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

  Orrin Hatch

• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

• It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

  Clive James

• People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

  Alan Kay

• Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

  Alan Kay

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

• The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

  Alan Kay

• I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

  John F. Kennedy

• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

  John F. Kennedy

• I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

  Jaron Lanier

• Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

  Jaron Lanier

• The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

  Scott McNealy

• It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

  John Stuart Mill

• I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

  William Gibson

• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

  William Gibson

• The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

  William Gibson

• The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

  William Gibson

• The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

  William Gibson

• The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

  William Gibson

• Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

  William Gibson

• Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

  William Gibson

• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

• Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

  Tim Berners Lee

• The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

  Tim Berners Lee

• You affect the world by what you browse.

  Tim Berners Lee

• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  Edward R. Murrow

• There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

  Georges Pompidou

• All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

  Carl Sagan

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

• The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  B. F. Skinner

• The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

  Thomas Sowell

• I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

  Bruce Sterling

• The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

  Clifford Stoll

• Men have become the tools of their tools.

  Henry David Thoreau

• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

  Larry Wall

• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

  Larry Wall

• What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

  Meg Whitman

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  Flip Wilson

• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  Ralph Nader

• We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  E. F. Schumacher

• Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

  Carrie P. Snow

• The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

  John Spencer

• Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

  Gertrude Stein

• Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

• The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

  Linus Torvalds

• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  Oscar Wilde

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Success Quotes

• Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

  Erma Bombeck

• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

• I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

  George Burns

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  Dale Carnegie

• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

  Dale Carnegie

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  Dale Carnegie

• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

• Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

  Winston Churchill

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  Anthony J. D'Angelo

• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

  Albert Einstein

• Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

  Sam Ewing

• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  Irving Berlin

• Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

  Al Bernstein

• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  Salvador Dali

• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  W. C. Fields

• Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

  David Frost

• Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  J. Paul Getty

• Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

  Arnold H. Glasow

• Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

  Arnold H. Glasow

• Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

  Larry King

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

  Harold MacMillan

• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

• The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

  Ayn Rand

• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  Logan P. Smith

• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

  Margaret Thatcher

• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

  Booker T. Washington

• Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

  Earl Wilson

• Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  George Edward Woodberry

• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  Malcolm Forbes

• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  Bill Gates

• If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

  Juliana Hatfield

• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

  Elbert Hubbard

• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

• Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

  Charles Luckman

• It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

  David Merrick

• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

  Joe Paterno

• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

• Success is dependent on effort.

  Sophocles

• Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

  Kevin Spacey

• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

  Lily Tomlin

• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

  Oscar Wilde

• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

  Tennessee Williams

• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

  Sloan Wilson

• Nothing recedes like success.

  Walter Winchell

• I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

  Jonathan Winters

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Sports Quotes

• My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Red Auerbach

• Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

• If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

  Charles Barkley

• My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

  Charles Barkley

• These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

  Charles Barkley

• You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

  Charles Barkley

• Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

  Dave Barry

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  Yogi Berra

• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

  Hugo Black

• Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

  Al Boliska

• If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

  Tommy Bolt

• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  George Brett

• Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

  Heywood Broun

• I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

  Paul Coffey

• Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

  Doug Collins

• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Connors

• All sports for all people.

  Pierre de Coubertin

• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington

• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

• I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

  Gerald R. Ford

• I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

• The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

  Steve Garvey

• Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

  Joe Adcock

• The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

  Ernie Banks

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  Jack Benny

• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  Yogi Berra

• Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

  Jim Bishop

• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

• You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

  Jim Bouton

• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  Harry Caray

• Nobody roots for Goliath.

  Wilt Chamberlain

• I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

  Rodney Dangerfield

• The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

  George Deukmejian

• Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

  Tim Duncan

• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  Dale Earnhardt

• He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

  Nick Faldo

• Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

  Joe Garagiola

• I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."

  Joe Garagiola

• Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

  Joe Garagiola

• One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

  Joe Garagiola

• The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

  Billy Graham

• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

  Ernest Hemingway

• As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  Ben Hogan

• Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

  Ben Hogan

• I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

  Ben Hogan

• I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

  Ben Hogan

• I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

  Ben Hogan

• If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

  Ben Hogan

• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

• The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

  Ben Hogan

• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

• Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

  Phil Jackson

• Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

  Phil Jackson

• I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

  Phil Jackson

• If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

  Phil Jackson

• Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

  Phil Jackson

• Fans don't boo nobodies.

  Reggie Jackson

• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

  William James

• As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

  Michael Jordan

• I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

  Michael Jordan

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  Michael Jordan

• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Roger Kahn

• Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

  Roger Kahn

• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

• I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

  Roger Kahn

• Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

  Roger Kahn

• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

• Sports are a microcosm of society.

  Billie Jean King

• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

  Billie Jean King

• Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

  Tom Landry

• I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

  Joe E. Lewis

• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  Frank Gifford

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

• Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

  Paul Harvey

• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

• All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

  Gordie Howe

• You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

  Bobby Knight

• There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

  Charley Lau

• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  Jack Lemmon

• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

  Greg LeMond

• You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

  Greg LeMond

• Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

  John Leonard

• Life is about timing.

  Carl Lewis

• God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

  Eric Liddell

• If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

  Vince Lombardi

• Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

  Vince Lombardi

• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

• The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player.

  Bernie Lincicome

• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  Gary McCord

• He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

  Gary McCord

• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

• The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

  Martin Mull

• Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

  James Patrick Murray

• I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

  Shaquille O'Neal

• If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

  Shaquille O'Neal

• Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

  Joyce Carol Oates

• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

• What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

• Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

  Blaise Pascal

• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  Vince Lombardi

• The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

  John Madden

• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Jack Nicklaus

• He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

  Jack Nicklaus

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  Jack Nicklaus

• What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

  Greg Norman

• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

• A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

  Grantland Rice

• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

• Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

  Juan Antonio Samaranch

• Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

• He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

  Nick Price

• Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

  Nick Price

• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  Dan Quayle

• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  Warren Spahn

• There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

  Charles Spalding

• Most ball games are lost, not won.

  Casey Stengel

• Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

  Barry Switzer

• When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

  Hunter S. Thompson

• Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

• I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

  Mike Tyson

• Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

  Peter Ueberroth

• Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

  Peter Ueberroth

• The integrity of the game is everything.

  Peter Ueberroth

• Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

  Bobby Unser

• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

• Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

• Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

  William Wordsworth

• Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

• You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

  Lee Trevino

• Golf is a good walk spoiled.

  Mark Twain

• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

  Mark Twain

• Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

  Harry Vardon

• Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

  Bill Veeck

• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  Jesse Ventura

• The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

  Bob Verdi

• What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

  Bob Verdi

• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

  William Arthur Ward

• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  Earl Warren

• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

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Society Quotes

• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

• It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

  Jacques Barzun

• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

  Randolph Bourne

• You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

  Art Buchwald

• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

  Erich Fromm

• Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

  Robert Frost

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John W. Gardner

• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

• Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  Carl Sandburg

• The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

• It is not a fragrant world.

  Raymond Chandler

• Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

  Charles Horton Cooley

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

• Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

  Timothy Leary

• Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

  Peter Medawar

• Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

  George Orwell

• Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

  Thomas Szasz

• Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

  Thomas Szasz

• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

• Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

  George Bernard Shaw

• How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

  Paul Sweeney

• What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

  Henry David Thoreau

• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Alvin Toffler

• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  Lily Tomlin

• Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

  Bill Vaughan

• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

• The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

  Daniel Webster

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Science Quotes

• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  Isaac Asimov

• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

  Marcus Aurelius

• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

  Francis Bacon

• I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

  James H. Boren

• The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

  Ray Bradbury

• Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

  Ray Bradbury

• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

• Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

  Wernher von Braun

• We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

  Wernher von Braun

• I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

• What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

• He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

  George William Curtis

• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

• Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

  Albert Einstein

• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

  Albert Einstein

• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

  Henry B. Adams

• When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

  Leon Battista Alberti

• Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

  Archimedes

• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

  Mary Kay Ash

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

• There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

  John D. Barrow

• Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

  Niels Bohr

• There are no shortcuts in evolution.

  Louis D. Brandeis

• Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

  Erwin Chargaff

• If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

  Arthur C. Clarke

• Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

  Rene Descartes

• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

  John Dewey

• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  Albert Einstein

• Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

  Sam Ervin

• Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

  Martin Henry Fischer

• Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

  Stephen Jay Gould

• In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

  Stephen Jay Gould

• From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

  Tom Hanks

• Leave the atom alone.

  E. Y. Harburg

• You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

  Heinrich Heine

• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

• Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

  Jane Howard

• Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

  Jay Leno

• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

  Konrad Lorenz

• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

  Bruce Feirstein

• The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

  Arnold H. Glasow

• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  Edmund Hillary

• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  Carl Jung

• People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

  Charles Kettering

• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

  Ashley Montagu

• Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

  Howard Nemerov

• Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

  Margaret Mead

• When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

  Wilson Mizner

• A satellite has no conscience.

  Edward R. Murrow

• Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

  John von Neumann

• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

  Dave Parnas

• Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

  Linus Pauling

• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

• Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

  Max Planck

• For NASA, space is still a high priority.

  Dan Quayle

• If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

  Robert Quillen

• Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

  Wilhelm Reich

• Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

  Jean Rostand

• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  Carl Sagan

• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

• Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger

• Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

  Adam Smith

• Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

  Adam Smith

• The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

  Gertrude Stein

• A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

  Edward Teller

• The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

  Edward Teller

• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

• The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

  Lewis Thomas

• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Alvin Toffler

• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

• In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

  Hugh Walpole

• Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

  James D. Watson

• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  E. B. White

• A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

  Alan Perlis

• There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

  Charles Pierce

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Religion Quotes

• He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

  Douglas Adams

• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  Douglas Adams

• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  Edmund Burke

• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

  Albert Camus

• I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

  Arthur C. Clarke

• Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

  Frederick II

• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

  Kahlil Gibran

• If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

  Kahlil Gibran

• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

  Robert A. Heinlein

• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

  Robert A. Heinlein

• We are punished by our sins, not for them.

  Elbert Hubbard

• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  Isaac Asimov

• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

  Annie Dillard

• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

• Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  Albert Einstein

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

  William Falconer

• I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

• If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

  Soren Kierkegaard

• There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

  Louis Kronenberger

• There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

• It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

  Helen Keller

• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

  Helen Keller

• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  C. S. Lewis

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

• The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

  Bill Maher

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  H. L. Mencken

• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

• Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

  Dennis Miller

• Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

  John Morley

• The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

  George Santayana

• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

  George Bernard Shaw

• When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

  Frank Sinatra

• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

• If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

  Margaret Smith

• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

  Desmond Tutu

• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

• You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

  Anne Lamott

• Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

  Blaise Pascal

• Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

  Paul Tournier

• God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

  Paul Valery

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Politics Quotes

• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

• He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

  Henry B. Adams

• In politics the middle way is none at all.

  John Adams

• Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  John Quincy Adams

• Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

  Spiro T. Agnew

• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  Russell Baker

• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

• A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

  Leonard Bernstein

• Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

  Lewis Black

• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

• Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

• If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

  Louis D. Brandeis

• The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  Edmund Burke

• The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

  Dante Alighieri

• The secret of getting things done is to act!

  Dante Alighieri

• Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

  Aristotle

• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

• So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  Fidel Castro

• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  Fidel Castro

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  Paddy Chayefsky

• If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

• We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

  Frank Howard Clark

• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

• Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

  William O. Douglas

• The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

  John Foster Dulles

• Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

  Robert Byrne

• Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

  Jimmy Carter

• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

  Winston Churchill

• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

  Winston Churchill

• I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

  Arthur C. Clarke

• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

  Clarence Darrow

• Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

  Robertson Davies

• In politics nothing is contemptible.

  Benjamin Disraeli

• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.

  Esther B. Fein

• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

  W. C. Fields

• In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

  J. William Fulbright

• Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

• The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

• Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

• The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

  Erich Fromm

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

  John W. Gardner

• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

  John W. Gardner

• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

• In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

  Charles de Gaulle

• Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

  Charles de Gaulle

• Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

  Kahlil Gibran

• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

  William E. Gladstone

• An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

  Arnold H. Glasow

• If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

  Emma Goldman

• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Barry Goldwater

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  Al Gore

• If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

  Meg Greenfield

• I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

  William Gilbert

• Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

  Newt Gingrich

• Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

  Alexander Hamilton

• You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

  Daniel Hannan

• The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

  Herbert Hoover

• We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

  Kin Hubbard

• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

  Thomas Jefferson

• I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  Edward Koch

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

  Edward Koch

• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

  Doug Larson

• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  A. J. Liebling

• The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

  Clare Boothe Luce

• They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

  Clare Boothe Luce

• Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Tse-Tung

• In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

  Dick Gregory

• We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

  Martin L. Gross

• I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

  Gary Hart

• I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

• Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

  Lady Bird Johnson

• Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

  Edward Kennedy

• My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

  John F. Kennedy

• Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

  Robert Kennedy

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  Oscar Levant

• It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

• It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  George MacDonald

• Politics have no relation to morals.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

  Imelda Marcos

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  H. L. Mencken

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

  John Stuart Mill

• The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

• You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

  John Morley

• You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

  Thomas P. O'Neill

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

• The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

  P. J. O'Rourke

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  P. J. O'Rourke

• Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

  Robert Orben

• 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

• Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

  Pope John Paul II

• I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

  Sydney Pollack

• El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

  Dan Quayle

• I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

  Dan Quayle

• I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

  Dan Quayle

• I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

  Dan Quayle

• I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

  Dan Quayle

• I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.

  Dan Quayle

• I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

  Dan Quayle

• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

• I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

  Dan Quayle

• I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

  Dan Quayle

• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  Dan Quayle

• I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

  Dan Quayle

• I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

  Dan Quayle

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  Dan Quayle

• In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

  Dan Quayle

• It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

  Dan Quayle

• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  Dan Quayle

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  Dan Quayle

• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  Dan Quayle

• Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

  Dan Quayle

• Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

  Dan Quayle

• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  Dan Quayle

• The future will be better tomorrow.

  Dan Quayle

• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

  Dan Quayle

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  Dan Quayle

• The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

  Dan Quayle

• This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

  Dan Quayle

• This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

  Dan Quayle

• We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

  Dan Quayle

• Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

  Thurgood Marshall

• The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

  Maureen Murphy

• Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

  Ralph Nader

• It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

• It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

• My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

• The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

  Ross Perot

• A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

  Albert Pike

• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

• If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

  Hyman Rickover

• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

• I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

  Will Rogers

• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

  Will Rogers

• There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

  Will Rogers

• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Gerhard Schroeder

• We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

  Dan Quayle

• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

  Dan Quayle

• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  Dan Quayle

• What you guys want, I'm for.

  Dan Quayle

• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

  Dan Quayle

• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  Dan Quayle

• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  Dan Quayle

• Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

  Ronald Reagan

• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

  Leo Rosten

• If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

• A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

  Caskie Stinnett

• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  Oliver Stone

• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

• There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

  Mark Twain

• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

• Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

  Gore Vidal

• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

• Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

  Gore Vidal

• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

  Daniel Webster

• Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

  William E. Simon

• It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

  Joseph Stalin

• There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

  Gertrude Stein

• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

  Stewart Udall

• The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

  Bill Vaughan

• After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

  George C. Wallace

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White

• The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

  Theodore White

• Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

  George Will

• Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

  George Will

• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

  Woodrow Wilson

• A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

  Deng Xiaoping

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