Who Quotes

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Be who you are and be that well.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.