Quotes by American/USA authors (page 14)

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"It is better to be looked over than overlooked"

Mae West, Actress

"To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing"

Will Rogers, Actor

"The best way out of a difficulty is through it"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

Helen Keller, Author

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart"

Helen Keller, Author

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"Get off your horse and drink your milk"

John Wayne, Actor

"What a nice night for an evening"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"A good system shortens the road to the goal"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Elevate those guns a little lower"

Andrew Jackson, President

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