All Quotes

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
‐‐ Robert Casey

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
‐‐ Angela Carter

Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
‐‐ Barry Diller

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
‐‐ Kenneth H. Cooper

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
‐‐ Mary Kay Ash

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
‐‐ Enzo Ferrari

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.
‐‐ Richard Bach

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.
‐‐ Linda Gray

Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio.
‐‐ Godfrey Hounsfield

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
‐‐ Joe Perry

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.
‐‐ Leif Garrett

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
‐‐ Remy de Gourmont

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
‐‐ Rachael Taylor

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

'Affable' is the word that often comes up from reporters, even staunch critics, who meet Lou Dobbs for the first time.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
‐‐ Aesop

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
‐‐ David K. Shipler

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
‐‐ Francesco Guicciardini

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
‐‐ Fanny Brice

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
‐‐ Robert Blair

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
‐‐ Andrew Davies

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
‐‐ John Kasich

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.
‐‐ Faye Wattleton

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
‐‐ Andrew Young

Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
‐‐ Joe Klein

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
‐‐ Jim Webb

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
‐‐ Harold Washington

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
‐‐ Sextus Propertius

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
‐‐ Francis Atterbury

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
‐‐ John Donne