Lysander Spooner Quotes

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

Lysander Spooner

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• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Years
  • More

• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • See
  • Compassion

• I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • School
  • Community
  • Play

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Long
  • Destroy
  • Cooperation

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Internet
  • Reach

• I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Flight
  • Floating

• I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Time
  • History
  • Silence

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Go

• Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nation
  • Nations
  • Patriotism

• I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Now
  • Privacy

• No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Accepted
  • Catastrophe
  • Rebellious

• I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• Maybe it wasn’t anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

  

  Iain Banks

• The really funny comedies to me are always the ones that are played the straightest or given the most emotional content. And when people start making faces and setting things up and commenting and winking at you, I don't find that to be very funny.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• You can't stand in front of people and say, 'We want your vote,' and not tell people what it is they're voting for. We all know that staying the course is not a strategy that's going to work.

  

  Eric Massa
  • People
  • Work
  • Vote

• I don't think any prosecutor should walk into a courtroom and think they're going to wow a jury with catchphrases and cliches and that kind of performance.

  

  Marcia Clark

• I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Happy

• It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

  

  Lysander Spooner