Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit… — Woodrow Wyatt Copy Share Image
The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would… — Eddy Arnold Copy Share Image
Even though I feel very privileged to play football, with the things I have experienced within the game, it is not something… — Danny Rose Copy Share Image
Captain John Sheridan: I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it. Delenn: Then I will tell… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us… — Franz Wisner Copy Share Image
I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
What I do know is that I can't hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I… — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I don't… — Cynthia Lord Copy Share Image
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“a heart wish that his brain rejected. Heart wishes were a good thing if maybe they could be made real, if you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough… — Kevin Keegan Copy Share Image
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one.… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I apologize for my terrible interview skills. I wasn't prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
