All Quotes

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
‐‐ D. B. Sweeney

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
‐‐ Ben Okri

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
‐‐ Gelett Burgess

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
‐‐ Basil Bunting

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
‐‐ Michael Sandel

To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.
‐‐ George Muller

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
‐‐ John Churton Collins

To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
‐‐ Malcolm Gets

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.
‐‐ James Stephens

To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.
‐‐ Al Franken

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
‐‐ Albert Camus

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.
‐‐ Leon Bourgeois

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
‐‐ Rafael Correa

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.
‐‐ Seal

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
‐‐ Aristotle

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
‐‐ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
‐‐ Peace Pilgrim

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.
‐‐ Joshua Foer

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
‐‐ Frank Herbert

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
‐‐ Denis Diderot

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
‐‐ Thomas Hood

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
‐‐ Paul Harris

To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'
‐‐ Rita Rudner

To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand.
‐‐ Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
‐‐ Ari Fleischer

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.
‐‐ Nina Easton

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
‐‐ Barack Obama

To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
‐‐ James Buchanan

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.
‐‐ Jon Cryer

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
‐‐ Peter McWilliams

To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant - that, or somewhere totally secluded... in Paris.
‐‐ Betty Who

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

To awake from death is to die in peace.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
‐‐ Freya Stark