Memorable Quotes

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

It takes a village to raise a child.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Beware the ides of March.

The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

We have seen better days.

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.