Tom Hayden (Thomas Emmet Hayden) Quotes
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
Quotes to Explore
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!
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I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
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Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
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Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
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I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!
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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
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I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.
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I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?
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Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
