453 quotes found
“One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.”
“Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton”
“Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.”
“His core business still is self-promotion.”
“Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers”
“Folly is a child of power.”
“Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.”
“He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.”
“I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.”
“As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.”
“His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.”
“Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching h...”
“Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.”
“The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.”
“I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals. (10)”
“I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.”
“The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!”
“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.”
“Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.”
“The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation...”
