Famous Quotes Name I

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Even the longest day has its end.

True strength lies in gentleness.

Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.

Good luck beats early rising.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.

Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.

It is not a fish until it is on the bank.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Better be quarreling than lonesome.

A dimple in the chin a devil within.

Every invalid is a doctor.

All sins cast long shadows.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

There's no business like show business.

Truth is shorter than fiction.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ..

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.