The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession. — Adam Lamberg Copy Share Image
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood.… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. — Shuler Hensley Copy Share Image
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
