Famous Quotes Name H

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together-or be cast aside together.

M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me,O means only that she's growing old,T is for the tears she shed to save me,H is for her heart of purest goldE is for her eyes, with love-light shining,R means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,A word that means the world to me.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...

That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

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.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

Never give up on anybody.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.