Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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• I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Trump
  • Terrible

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I was a little too young to be a hippie.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Young
  • Little
  • Hippie

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Man
  • Changes

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Society
  • Military

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Control
  • Win
  • Leader

• If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • Good
  • She
  • Question

• I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.

  

  George Foreman
  • Giving
  • Should
  • Matter

• If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Mind
  • Attention

• I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Look
  • New

• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Only