J. Edgar Hoover Quotes
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
Quotes to Explore
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.
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All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'
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The only failure is not to try.
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It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
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A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.
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It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
