Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been a partier.
-
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
-
There is no bore like a clever bore.
-
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
-
We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
-
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
Movies don't have borders.
-
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
-
I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
-
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?
-
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
-
When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
-
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.