All Quotes

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
‐‐ Abraham Cowley

Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
‐‐ Herodotus

Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.
‐‐ Paul Stamets

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.
‐‐ James McGreevey

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
‐‐ Joseph Cook

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
‐‐ Herodotus

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
‐‐ Louis Aragon

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
‐‐ Barbara Olson

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
‐‐ Voltaire

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
‐‐ John Foster Dulles

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.
‐‐ Suge Knight

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
‐‐ Chuck Close

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.
‐‐ Eliza Haywood

Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig

Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.
‐‐ Lewis Gordon Pugh

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
‐‐ David Viscott

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
‐‐ James Madison

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
‐‐ James Buchan

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.
‐‐ Julian Castro

Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Of all the games I've done, the only time I've ever lost my voice was on 'Call Of Duty 2,' playing a rasping Russian captain on the Stalingrad level.
‐‐ Nolan North

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
‐‐ Aeschylus

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
‐‐ Maggie Gallagher

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
‐‐ Victoria Secunda

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
‐‐ Sam Snead

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
‐‐ John Howard

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
‐‐ Steve Jobs