All Quotes

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
‐‐ Henry Winkler

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
‐‐ Carl Jung

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
‐‐ Hans Kung

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
‐‐ Ferdinand Buisson

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

A humble scientist is a good scientist.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
‐‐ Don Herold

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
‐‐ Frank Capra

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
‐‐ Le Corbusier

A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I'll be happy.
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?
‐‐ Johannes Rau

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
‐‐ Johannes Rau

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
‐‐ Robert Doisneau

A hungry dog hunts best.
‐‐ Lee Trevino

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

A hungry man is an angry one.
‐‐ Buchi Emecheta

A hungry man is not a free man.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

A hungry stomach cannot hear.
‐‐ Jean de La Fontaine

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
‐‐ Simone Weil

A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.
‐‐ Evan Esar

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.
‐‐ Lou Costello

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
‐‐ George Savile

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
‐‐ Sara Teasdale

A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
‐‐ Don Marquis

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
‐‐ David Remnick

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
‐‐ George Foreman

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
‐‐ Sam Rayburn

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream.
‐‐ Steve Truglia

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.
‐‐ Steve Truglia

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
‐‐ Bob Hope

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
‐‐ Ken Burns

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
‐‐ Benny Green

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.
‐‐ Albert Murray

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
‐‐ Mikhail Bakunin

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
‐‐ Frank Oz

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger