Recent Thoughts
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HoraceNature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOccasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
Thomas KempisWe must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.
John WarnerIf the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Charles BaudelaireAn artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry MillerYou know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
Duane G. CareyYou elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
Bob RileyThe action of this government is decidedly against these Africans and they will send them to Cuba if they dare.
Lewis TappanThe guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMaybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
David H. DonaldThe first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.
Johnny RiversThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesAll the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
Michelangelo AntonioniEvery time I'm a bit surprised always, what the patterns look like and what the whole thing looks like because, of course, I primarily hear.
Leo OrnsteinIdealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail BakuninAnd looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
Juice NewtonI think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
Billy JoelAt that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.
Fritz SauckelIt's my own stupid fault, as usual. I was in possession of class C drugs, which is an offence, and I have no complaints about the police, who were professional throughout.
George MichaelIt is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre GideIf you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
Robert GrossetesteI want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
Tina TurnerJazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
Rita Coolidge
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