Who Quotes

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.