American Quotations

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

I got lost but look what I found.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I wouldn't say I'm lucky, but I do take care of my body. I never drink or smoke, and I get the most out of my body.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.

The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.

Internal marketing is probably much more important than external marketing. That's even more true today than it's ever been.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

So I say keep yelling and hustling every minute you're in uniform.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.