As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
‐‐ Boris Pasternak
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
‐‐ Tom Jones
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.
‐‐ Ezra Cornell
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
‐‐ Barry Eichengreen
As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.
‐‐ Chuck Mangione
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
‐‐ Mohammed Omar
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
‐‐ David Hockney
As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean
As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.
‐‐ Clive Barker
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
‐‐ Hattie McDaniel
As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup
As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
‐‐ Bao Dai
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the conflict. There is solid evidence of his eagerness to end America's military role in that country's civil war.
‐‐ Robert Dallek
As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.
‐‐ Matthew Rhys
As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
‐‐ Edith Stein
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
‐‐ Vikram Seth
As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple.
‐‐ Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee
As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta
As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at it.
‐‐ Susan Isaacs
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
‐‐ Josiah Royce
As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.
‐‐ Kevin Plank
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
‐‐ Jonas Gahr Store
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
‐‐ Ron Kind
As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
‐‐ Isabel Paterson
As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.
‐‐ Gerard Way
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller
As friends go it is less important to live.
‐‐ Rutherford B. Hayes
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen
As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
‐‐ Isaac Brock
As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.
‐‐ James Longstreet
As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.
‐‐ Dave Pirner
As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn
As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.
‐‐ Rafael Cruz
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
‐‐ Jose Rizal
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study 'Breaking Free', He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.
‐‐ Beth Moore
As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company.
‐‐ Jay Samit
As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
‐‐ Steven Tyler
As good as I was at wrestling, I never thought I was any good.
‐‐ Jake Roberts
As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.'
‐‐ Michael J. Anderson
As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.
‐‐ Stanley Marcus
As goofy as it sounds, I try to sing in the morning. It's hard both to sing and to maintain a grouchy mood, and it sets a happy tone for everyone - particularly in my case, because I'm tone deaf, and my audience finds my singing a source of great hilarity.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin
As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander