All Quotes

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.
‐‐ Herman Gorter

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
‐‐ Robert Collier

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.
‐‐ Greg Walden

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.
‐‐ Bob Mayer

As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.
‐‐ Chung Mong-joon

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.
‐‐ Craig Kilborn

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
‐‐ Abbas Kiarostami

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
‐‐ Darren Aronofsky

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
‐‐ Michael Mann

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.
‐‐ Timothy Geithner

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
‐‐ John Keble

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

As first and foremost a character actor, I've always resisted the temptation to cure any of the people I've played or make them lovable in any way; you've just got to celebrate them for what they are.
‐‐ Martin Clunes

As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

As First Minister, I will always act in the best interests of the country. As party leader, I will always act in the best interests of the party, and if that sometimes means taking difficult, unpalatable decisions, I will never shy away from that.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
‐‐ Gary Neville

As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
‐‐ LaDainian Tomlinson

As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.
‐‐ Sela Ward

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.
‐‐ Megan Gallagher

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.
‐‐ Casper Van Dien

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
‐‐ V. E. Schwab

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
‐‐ Larry Niven

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.
‐‐ Ali Smith

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.
‐‐ Donald Norman

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
‐‐ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.
‐‐ Jan Hus

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
‐‐ John Stuart Mill

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
‐‐ Piers Anthony

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
‐‐ Andre Norton

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
‐‐ Enid Bagnold

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
‐‐ Jerry B. Jenkins

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.
‐‐ Sylvia Day

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.
‐‐ Kirsten Prout

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.
‐‐ Roy Thomson

As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
‐‐ Arthur Cayley