Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 6

• All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

  Laozi

  World, All Things

  Tao-te Ching ch. 40 (translation byWing-Tsit Chan)

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• I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

  Richard M. Nixon

  Doors, Office, Leaving

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• The limitations are limitless.

  Beck

  Limitless, Limitation

  Song: Painted Eyelids, Album: One Foot In The Grave, 1994

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• You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

  David Lee

  Deviants, Ifs

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• My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Break Up, Winning, Views

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.2, Best Books on

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• The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

  John Henry Newman

  World, Surface, Settings

  John Henry Newman (1859). “The Scope and Nature of University Education ... Second Edition”, p.296

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• I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

  Horace

  Obscure, Strive

  'Ars Poetica' l. 25

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• A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

  Adolf Hitler

  Love, Two, People

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• And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode.

  Bob Seger

  Want, Bother

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• What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

  Sylvia Plath

  Horse, Wind, Knives

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• Whatever come we have to meet it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

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• It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Progress, Goes On, Want

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.54, Da Capo Press

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• Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Long Ago, Mind, Criticism

  "My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. January 14, 1942.

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• This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Democracy, Problem

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.56, Da Capo Press

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• One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Sleep, Advice, Bed

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.53, Da Capo Press

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• I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Matter, Way, Imagine

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.98, Da Capo Press

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• One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Blessing, Age, Treasure

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Growth, Doe

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• To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Trying, Hunger

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• This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

  Charles II of England

  Action, Ministers, Very True

  Reply to Lord Rochester's epitaph on him.

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• The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

  Claude Bissell

  Taken, Social, Disaster

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• To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not see— Who fall — and none observe — Whose dying eyes, no Country Regards with patriot love— We trust, in plumed procession For such, the Angels go— Rank after Rank, with even feet— And Uniforms of Snow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Country, Fall, Eye

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• And what the people but a herd confus'd,
  A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
  Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
  They praise, and they admire, they know not what;
  And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
  And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
  To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
  Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

  John Milton

  People, Tongue, Delight

  John Milton (1831). “Milton's Poetical Works”, p.40

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• For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

  Frantz Fanon

  Violence, Achilles, Heal

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