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Quotes by American Authors
"Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. Butoverdo it, and no one wants very much of you."
"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."
"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world."
"Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason."
"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong."
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
"They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans."
"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
"Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable."
"The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk."
"My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment."
"My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings."
"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."
"If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down."
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."
"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."
"I have a very open line of communication with both my children."
"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."
"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."
"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."
"I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine."
"I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid."
"With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track."
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
"I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'."
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
"I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people."
"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."
"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants."
"That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it."
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