Which Quotes

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.