Which Quotes

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.