William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
Paul Auster
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Man by nature wants to know.
Aristotle
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To go fast, row slowly.
Norman Vincent Peale
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It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.
Thomas Hobbes
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.
John Stuart Mill
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The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.
William O. Douglas
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Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.
William S. Burroughs
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
Blaise Pascal
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.
DJ Ashba
Beautiful Creatures
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Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
Gautama Buddha