To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
~Author : George Stanley McGovern Famous Quotes
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
~Author : Moroccan Proverb Inspirational Sayings
I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
~Author : Benito Perez Galdos Nice Quotes
These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere … You can run but you can’t hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)
~Author : Ronald Reagan Great Sayings
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
~Author : Nguyen Co Thatch Vietnamese foreign minister Meaningful Sayings
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
~Author : Channing Pollock Wise Quotes
To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
~Author : George Washington Motivational Sayings
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
~Author : Dan Quayle Famous Quotes
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Sayings
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Nice Quotes
You never know what’s hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. (When asked how he would choose to die)
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Great Sayings
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
~Author : Alexander Hodge Meaningful Sayings
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
~Author : Michael Crichton Caltech Michelin Lecture January 17 2003 Wise Quotes
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
~Author : Man Ray O Magazine September 2002 Motivational Sayings
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
~Author : Laurence Sterne Famous Quotes
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.” It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.” You can love completely without complete understanding.
~Author : Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It Inspirational Sayings
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
~Author : Paxton Hood Nice Quotes
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~Author : Antoine de SaintExupery Great Sayings
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
~Author : Evelyn Waugh Meaningful Sayings
I have long considered it one of God’s greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
~Author : Eugene Forsey Wise Quotes
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
~Author : Confucius Motivational Sayings
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
~Author : Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal Famous Quotes
Life is very important to Americans.
~Author : Bob Dole Inspirational Sayings
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
~Author : Shakespeare Hamlet III iv 156160 Nice Quotes
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Great Sayings
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
~Author : Dale Carnegie Meaningful Sayings
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
~Author : Oscar Levant Wise Quotes
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~Author : Irish Proverb Motivational Sayings