George Dennison Prentice Famous Quotes
"We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable."
"Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true."
"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."
George Dennison Prentice Quotations
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
Hugh Prather
"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships."
George Bernard Shaw
"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of."
Douglas Adams
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
"Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."
George Santayana
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
P J O Rourke
Light at the end of the tunnel We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.
Lyndon B Johnson
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Edward Irving Koch