1,211 quotes found
“Politics is a blood sport.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.”
“Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.”
“The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.”
“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
“Epigram: a wisecrack that has played Carnegie Hall.”
“I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.”
“I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.”
“What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.”
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.”
“Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.”
“Go ahead with your life your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.”
“You can have unbelievable intelligence you can have connections you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end hard work is the true enduring characteristic of successful people.”
“Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.”
“Self Help: When you really stop and think about it, is there any other kind?”
“Taking Mum's hand, I whispered "Are we really safe, here?”
“I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.”
“Did you ever think about writing memoirs? You are a writer, and it may be interesting for people to read your story."I hate memoirs. But I am sure I will write a book about the Bowery Mission, Mich...”
“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”
“Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.”
