James R Lowell Famous Quotes
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
James R Lowell Quotations
"No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil."
Robert Lynd
"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental."
Leopold Stein
Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
David Letterman
"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this."
Lord Byron
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
Melissa Mayer
"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old."
Phillip Chesterfield
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management."
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
"Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining."
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