Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
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Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.
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Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible.
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To-day we can affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism… To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution.
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
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The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.
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I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.
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A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
