I. F. Stone Quotes

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

I. F. Stone

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• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Real
  • Food
  • Community

• I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Question
  • Air
  • Speak

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• Money is a kind of poetry.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Poetry

• I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank - I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry - for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Life
  • Father
  • Jesus

• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Theory
  • Student

• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Best
  • Road
  • Messy

• Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Taken

• If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Like
  • Fantasy

• I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Believe
  • Run
  • Surprises

• No, it doesn't affect my morale. Because life must go on. I would pick up a paper or a derogatory article and stick it in my bathroom or my desk and see it every morning. I look at it as something that has to be overcome- (On his reaction to the abuse and ridicule in the Press).

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May

• Words are but empty thanks.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Words
  • Thanks

• When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • Dream

• At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• ...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

  

  Vaclav Smil
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Green

• It's bad. It's damned bad.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bad
  • Civil War
  • Damned

• Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Littles
  • Pleasant
  • Surprising

• When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

  

  I. F. Stone