Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Booker T. Washington

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Orson Scott Card

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Abraham Lincoln

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Abraham Maslow

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Abraham Lincoln

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.

Ben Street

The thing was just lying there for me to put in.

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

Bashar al-Assad

In the End, a Lie Is a Lie.

Bashar al-Assad

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

Ayn Rand

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level...

Ayn Rand

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

Bertrand Russell

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Ann Coulter

Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Claire Danes

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all