All Quotes

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.
‐‐ Lilly Ledbetter

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.
‐‐ Roberto Unger

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
‐‐ Aleister Crowley

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
‐‐ Dorothy Corkille Briggs

The surest sign of age is loneliness.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

The surest test of discipline is its absence.
‐‐ Clara Barton

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.
‐‐ Claire Forlani

The surest way to be alone is to get married.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.
‐‐ David Ignatius

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
‐‐ Jane Welsh Carlyle

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
‐‐ Douglas William Jerrold

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
‐‐ Gordon W. Allport

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
‐‐ John Randolph

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.
‐‐ Scott Brown

The surface is all you get of me.
‐‐ Gary Hume

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.
‐‐ Rob Machado

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
‐‐ David Mamet

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
‐‐ Ross MacDonald

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
‐‐ Doug Larson

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted 'Time Magazine''s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
‐‐ Mal Peet

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
‐‐ M. H. Abrams

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
‐‐ Bill Frist