Tom Lehrer Quotes

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

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• As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck - or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Environment
  • Generation
  • Scientists

• In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi

• I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Person
  • Loves
  • Offseason

• I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Pretty
  • Heroin

• There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Feelings

• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Pictures
  • Effect
  • Merit

• I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Proud
  • Obsession
  • Arena

• The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Magic

• Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

  

  Lord Byron
  • People
  • Coin
  • Change Of Love

• Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

  

  Bonnell Thornton
  • Dangerous
  • Reform
  • Traveling

• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  

  William Blake
  • Gods
  • Poets
  • Objects

• The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Help
  • Prayer

• He just has to finish, ... He's doing everything right but the final act and that's finding some strength and finishing and finding a good base and putting it through the hoop. I just told him, 'You're going to have to dunk the ball.'

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Finish
  • Strenght

• The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

  

  Tom Lehrer
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