Ed Koch Famous Quotes
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch Quotations
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
Thomas Huxley
"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible."
Bernard Mannes Baruch
"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface."
Aldous Huxley
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
Albert Schweitzer
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D Roosevelt
"It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose."
Boris Pasternak
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement."
Jerry Coleman
"When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer."
Robin Leach
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D Eisenhower