Quotes Page
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln -
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson -
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
- Deborah Tannen -
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein -
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein -
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
- Steve Wozniak -
I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me.
- Peter Habeler -
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
- Nikola Tesla -
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
- Walt Disney -
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
- Walt Disney -
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill -
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
- Robert Frost -
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
- Plato -
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
- Lord Byron -
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
- Harry Houdini -
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
- Benjamin Franklin -
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
- Marilyn Monroe -
Mr. Burns: This calls for the League of Evil! (Opens door to sees League of Evil is dead and nothing but skeletons.)
Mr. Burns: My League, my beautiful League! All dead.
Smithers: Even monsters need air, sir.
Mr. Burns: oh. Gather their watches.
- The Simpsons -
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley -
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