Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Croly

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Herbert Croly

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Herbert Read

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Herbert Read

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Herbert Read

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

Evelyn Waugh

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Eva Longoria

If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.

Eva Longoria

I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

Eva Longoria

I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems.

Evan Glodell

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

Esther Hicks

If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.

Esther Hicks

In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.

Esther Hicks

What is the definition of procrastination? It means: I can feel within my Energy sensor that this action is not in perfect alignment at this time.

Ernest Hemingway

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Ernest Hemingway

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

Etty Hillesum

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Ernest Lawrence

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Ernest Lawrence

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Fatou Bensouda

I am an African and I am very proud of that.

Farrah Fawcett

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

Ezra Taft Benson

I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died

Evangelos Venizelos

Protect those who protect you.

Evel Knievel

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

Eve Ensler

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

Francis Maude

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

Francis Chan

God never breaks His promises.

George Washington

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

George Washington

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.