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Quotes by American Authors
"Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing."
"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences."
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
"Never surrender opportunity for security."
"She liked me because she said that we both hated everything and knew that friendship was an act of desperation. She said that for a man I was alright. She said that people were half-way and if it was up to her a lot of people would get killed and a lot of men would be walking around without their balls. She said that they should go on sale for women to hang off their rearview mirrors."
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
"A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong."
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger."
"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious."
"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again."
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
"In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls."
"The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?"
"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules."
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day."
"All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned."
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
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