180000 famous quotes part 10 – 9001 to 10000

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180000 famous quotes part 10 – 9001 to 10000

9001. There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say. – Gamaliel Bailey

9002. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. – Gamaliel Bailey

9003. Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. – Gamaliel Bailey

9004. In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. – H. C. Bailey

9005. Faith is a higher faculty than reason. – H. C. Bailey

9006. You didn’t eat some days for two days you didn’t eat properly. – Howard Bailey

9007. And if you had an, an opportunity to have a hot meal, you did. That was the cook. But you didn’t stop and say, This is dinnertime and Oh wait it’s five o’clock, it’s time to eat for supper. – Howard Bailey

9008. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. – Josiah Bailey

9009. More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation… and we can’t waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren’t up for an awesome responsibility. – Leonard Bailey

9010. You can’t serve up hearts like cherries jubilee. – Leonard Bailey

9011. When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9012. We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9013. There are two essential epochs in any enterprise – to begin, and to get done. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9014. The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9015. Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9016. One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9017. A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9018. No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9019. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9020. I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9021. Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9022. Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9023. There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9024. Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9025. Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9026. A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

9027. Threats without power are like powder without ball. – Nathan Bailey

9028. Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter. – Paul Bailey

9029. We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us – not our effects on others. – Pearl Bailey

9030. No one can figure out your worth but you. – Pearl Bailey

9031. You never find yourself until you face the truth. – Pearl Bailey

9032. You must change in order to survive. – Pearl Bailey

9033. You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself. – Pearl Bailey

9034. When you’re young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. – Pearl Bailey

9035. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. – Pearl Bailey

9036. To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. – Pearl Bailey

9037. There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. – Pearl Bailey

9038. There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you if you don’t repeat it. – Pearl Bailey

9039. There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. – Pearl Bailey

9040. The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. – Pearl Bailey

9041. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that. – Pearl Bailey

9042. People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him. – Pearl Bailey

9043. Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. – Pearl Bailey

9044. I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. – Pearl Bailey

9045. Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. – Pearl Bailey

9046. Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. – Pearl Bailey

9047. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. – Pearl Bailey

9048. A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. – Pearl Bailey

9049. Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. – Pearl Bailey

9050. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. – Philip James Bailey

9051. America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. – Philip James Bailey

9052. Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. – Philip James Bailey

9053. Music tells no truths. – Philip James Bailey

9054. Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. – Philip James Bailey

9055. Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. – Philip James Bailey

9056. Kindness is wisdom. – Philip James Bailey

9057. Imagination is the air of mind. – Philip James Bailey

9058. The long days are no happier than the short ones. – Philip James Bailey

9059. Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art. – Philip James Bailey

9060. There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. – Philip James Bailey

9061. Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. – Philip James Bailey

9062. What men call accident is God’s own part. – Philip James Bailey

9063. Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. – Philip James Bailey

9064. Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. – Philip James Bailey

9065. The sole equality on earth is death. – Philip James Bailey

9066. Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. – Philip James Bailey

9067. I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better! – Joanna Baillie

9068. I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! – Joanna Baillie

9069. A willing heart adds feather to the heel. – Joanna Baillie

9070. Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. – Joanna Baillie

9071. Instinct is untaught ability. – Alexander Bain

9072. Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn’t bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters. – Beryl Bainbridge

9073. When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. – Beryl Bainbridge

9074. It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner. – Beryl Bainbridge

9075. Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. – Beryl Bainbridge

9076. I’ve never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children – except to bring in the money. – Beryl Bainbridge

9077. I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don’t know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can’t think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I’m sure they’re there, but I’d have to think really hard to recall them. – Scott Baio

9078. With random urinalysis, there’s a clear choice – either get high or go to jail. – Brian Baird

9079. It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue – it is an American issue. – Brian Baird

9080. Professional competitions are overrated. – Oksana Baiul

9081. I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades. – Oksana Baiul

9082. People really do spend a lot of money on their pets – sometimes more then themselves. – Oksana Baiul

9083. Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. – Oksana Baiul

9084. Now, I don’t make decisions as fast as I used to. – Oksana Baiul

9085. No, I’m not coaching. It’s a huge responsibility to coach somebody. – Oksana Baiul

9086. I’d like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. – Oksana Baiul

9087. One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. – Oksana Baiul

9088. I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions. – Oksana Baiul

9089. Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work. – Oksana Baiul

9090. I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it’s a great workout. – Oksana Baiul

9091. My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice. – Oksana Baiul

9092. I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. – Oksana Baiul

9093. I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape. – Oksana Baiul

9094. I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me. – Oksana Baiul

9095. I don’t care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans. – Oksana Baiul

9096. I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year. – Oksana Baiul

9097. First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life. – Oksana Baiul

9098. And still I’m not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher. – Oksana Baiul

9099. Actually I dance really well on the floor. – Oksana Baiul

9100. I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog. – Oksana Baiul

9101. I wish I could say it’s easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems. – Oksana Baiul

9102. Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. – Fredrik Bajer

9103. There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. – Fredrik Bajer

9104. This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization. – Fredrik Bajer

9105. Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained. – Fredrik Bajer

9106. Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. – Fredrik Bajer

9107. It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. – Fredrik Bajer

9108. Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. – Fredrik Bajer

9109. To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced – this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. – Fredrik Bajer

9110. On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. – Fredrik Bajer

9111. There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion. – Fredrik Bajer

9112. There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs. – Fredrik Bajer

9113. The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. – Fredrik Bajer

9114. There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea. – Fredrik Bajer

9115. The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. – Fredrik Bajer

9116. A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace. – Fredrik Bajer

9117. We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. – Fredrik Bajer

9118. I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union. – Fredrik Bajer

9119. We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money. – Fredrik Bajer

9120. Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. – Fredrik Bajer

9121. Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. – Fredrik Bajer

9122. I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. – Fredrik Bajer

9123. By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. – Fredrik Bajer

9124. But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war. – Fredrik Bajer

9125. As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. – Fredrik Bajer

9126. Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. – Fredrik Bajer

9127. Today’s date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. – Fredrik Bajer

9128. The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. – Fredrik Bajer

9129. I’m picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it. – Anita Baker

9130. Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have. – Anita Baker

9131. You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. – Anita Baker

9132. I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album. – Anita Baker

9133. I don’t let people use me. That’s why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. – Anita Baker

9134. Completeness? Happiness? These words don’t come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. – Anita Baker

9135. Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily. – Anita Baker

9136. We don’t do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. – Anita Baker

9137. I can’t re-define music every week! – Arthur Baker

9138. I remember being told ‘Someone’s gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing’ and thinking ‘no way’. – Arthur Baker

9139. When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn’t have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track. – Buck Baker

9140. Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn’t spend too well. – Buck Baker

9141. The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met. – Chet Baker

9142. I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father’s income was such that I wouldn’t have got a grant, and he wouldn’t let me go to university, and that was the end of it. – Colin Baker

9143. I do adore food. If I have any vice it’s eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever. – Colin Baker

9144. If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you’ll never do anything good. – Colin Baker

9145. It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven’t done anything really significant since Doctor Who. – Colin Baker

9146. One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don’t mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. – Colin Baker

9147. I loathe cheese, it makes me ill. – Colin Baker

9148. I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I’m being paid. – Colin Baker

9149. I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business. – Colin Baker

9150. The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel. – David Baker

9151. What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn’t tell me how to write Ulysses. – David Baker

9152. That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back. – David Baker

9153. No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions. – David Baker

9154. In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music. – David Baker

9155. I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I’m concerned, we make theories for what people have done. – David Baker

9156. I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can’t name you 20 people outside those we’ve already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation. – David Baker

9157. I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don’t know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious. – David Baker

9158. When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps. – David Baker

9159. It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. – David Baker

9160. So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don’t want to micro manage any particular department. – Dusty Baker

9161. You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate. – Dusty Baker

9162. Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field. – Dusty Baker

9163. I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series – pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes. – Dusty Baker

9164. Everyone has a budget, I don’t care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll. – Dusty Baker

9165. One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. – Ella Baker

9166. Strong people don’t need strong leaders. – Ella Baker

9167. Give light and people will find the way. – Ella Baker

9168. But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. – George P. Baker

9169. Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation. – George P. Baker

9170. Acted drama requires surrender of one’s self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. – George P. Baker

9171. Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. – George P. Baker

9172. Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men. – George P. Baker

9173. Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. – George P. Baker

9174. In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results. – George P. Baker

9175. In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. – George P. Baker

9176. No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. – George P. Baker

9177. Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. – George P. Baker

9178. When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. – George P. Baker

9179. Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. – George P. Baker

9180. What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. – George P. Baker

9181. In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. – George P. Baker

9182. The drama is a great revealer of life. – George P. Baker

9183. The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. – George P. Baker

9184. There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. – George P. Baker

9185. We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements. – George P. Baker

9186. I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career. – Ginger Baker

9187. If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. – Ginger Baker

9188. I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have. – Ginger Baker

9189. They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that’s the case, there should be an immediate abortion. – Ginger Baker

9190. I’d rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. – Ginger Baker

9191. I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. – Ginger Baker

9192. When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true. – Herbert Baker

9193. We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself – of SOFA – and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make. – Howard Baker

9194. The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. – Howard Baker

9195. It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. – Howard Baker

9196. I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future. – Howard Baker

9197. I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. – Howard Baker

9198. Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we’re living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care. – Howard Baker

9199. Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment. – Howard Baker

9200. Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. – James Baker

9201. You don’t need to know who’s playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. – James Baker

9202. This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. – James Baker

9203. Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time – or never. – James Baker

9204. Never let the other fellow set the agenda. – James Baker

9205. I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. – James Baker

9206. When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. – James Baker

9207. For me, Schubert contains the world. – Janet Baker

9208. I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on. – Josephine Baker

9209. The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. – Josephine Baker

9210. I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. – Josephine Baker

9211. I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. – Josephine Baker

9212. Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes. – Josephine Baker

9213. He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. – Kenneth Baker

9214. Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. – Kenneth Baker

9215. So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different. – Kenneth Baker

9216. By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess. – Kenneth Baker

9217. It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. – Kenneth Baker

9218. Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. – Kenneth Baker

9219. I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. – Kenny Baker

9220. I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. – Kenny Baker

9221. I’ve been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act. – Kenny Baker

9222. We’ve always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame. – Mitchell Baker

9223. We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. – Mitchell Baker

9224. We have a very active testing community which people don’t often think about when you have open source. – Mitchell Baker

9225. We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. – Mitchell Baker

9226. There’s the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we’re extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet. – Mitchell Baker

9227. The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. – Mitchell Baker

9228. The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. – Mitchell Baker

9229. We’ve broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise. – Mitchell Baker

9230. People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts. – Mitchell Baker

9231. Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists. – Mitchell Baker

9232. Money tends to make people suspicious, if there’s any money floating around. – Mitchell Baker

9233. Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks. – Mitchell Baker

9234. I mean, who wants to live waking up… at least I don’t want to live waking up everyday about revenge. – Mitchell Baker

9235. But I think it’s always difficult when a product that you’re using and accustomed to changes. – Mitchell Baker

9236. The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. – Mitchell Baker

9237. Of course, it’s hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well. – Mitchell Baker

9238. Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you’ve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. – Nicholson Baker

9239. Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. – Nicholson Baker

9240. That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. – Nicholson Baker

9241. Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. – Nicholson Baker

9242. For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. – Nicholson Baker

9243. Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? – Nicholson Baker

9244. I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. – Nicholson Baker

9245. Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. – Nicholson Baker

9246. But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. – Ray Stannard Baker

9247. It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. – Ray Stannard Baker

9248. The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. – Ray Stannard Baker

9249. The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. – Ray Stannard Baker

9250. One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains. – Ray Stannard Baker

9251. Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored. – Ray Stannard Baker

9252. The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. – Ray Stannard Baker

9253. In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. – Ray Stannard Baker

9254. Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. – Ray Stannard Baker

9255. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. – Ray Stannard Baker

9256. And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. – Ray Stannard Baker

9257. A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. – Ray Stannard Baker

9258. A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. – Ray Stannard Baker

9259. The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes. – Richard Baker

9260. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. – Richard Baker

9261. It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars… knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear. – Richard H. Baker

9262. For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. – Richard H. Baker

9263. I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can! – Rick Baker

9264. Grinch had so many people in make up – virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances. – Rick Baker

9265. I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I’m one of the luckiest guys in the world ‘cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them. – Rick Baker

9266. In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

9267. Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. – Russell Baker

9268. Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker

9269. People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. – Russell Baker

9270. Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

9271. Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. – Russell Baker

9272. Live by publicity, you’ll probably die by publicity. – Russell Baker

9273. It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. – Russell Baker

9274. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. – Russell Baker

9275. Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

9276. In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. – Russell Baker

9277. I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

9278. Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. – Russell Baker

9279. Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. – Russell Baker

9280. Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. – Russell Baker

9281. Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

9282. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. – Russell Baker

9283. Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker

9284. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. – Russell Baker

9285. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. – Russell Baker

9286. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one’s beloved. – Russell Baker

9287. People who say you’re just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. – Russell Baker

9288. Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. – Russell Baker

9289. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. – Russell Baker

9290. The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any. – Russell Baker

9291. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. – Russell Baker

9292. When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools. – Russell Baker

9293. You can’t enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. – Russell Baker

9294. What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. – Russell Baker

9295. To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. – Stephen Baker

9296. This is the year you really put the stake in the ground. – Stephen Baker

9297. People didn’t stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs. – Stephen Baker

9298. Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. – Stephen Baker

9299. Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?… No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn’t be in places where he needs to contact me by cell. – Stephen Baker

9300. I am a one success man. – Tom Baker

9301. Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren’t they? They’re always telling us what’s going to happen, and we know they don’t know! – Tom Baker

9302. Not only don’t I know who I am, but I’m very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour! – Tom Baker

9303. Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid. – Tom Baker

9304. I’m obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness. – Tom Baker

9305. I think quite often a fate worse than death is life – for lots of people. – Tom Baker

9306. I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring. – Tom Baker

9307. Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it’s fantastic. It’s a kind of madness really. – Tom Baker

9308. We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it’s a sad story, as if we didn’t know it’s a sad story. There isn’t a single cool newsreader. – Tom Baker

9309. I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that’s the way it should be. – Tom Baker

9310. You’ve got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think. – Howard H. Baker, Jr.

9311. The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it? – Howard H. Baker, Jr.

9312. I think – there’s always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren’t as good as others. – Jim Bakker

9313. To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison. – Jim Bakker

9314. I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced – that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence – it came down eventually to eight years. – Jim Bakker

9315. In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this. – Jim Bakker

9316. It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like – you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard. – Jim Bakker

9317. It’s not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. – Jim Bakker

9318. Most of you are so young you don’t know who I am, and that’s good. – Jim Bakker

9319. My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel. – Jim Bakker

9320. Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. – Jim Bakker

9321. So you can’t lose serving God, and that all things work together for good. – Jim Bakker

9322. The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive. – Jim Bakker

9323. And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God – as I read in the word, you’re supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on. – Jim Bakker

9324. They’ve all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God. – Jim Bakker

9325. As I see with Lori’s testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she’s been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible. – Jim Bakker

9326. When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? – Jim Bakker

9327. I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us. – Jim Bakker

9328. When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who’s a true believer, if you die, you know you’re going to heaven to be with God. – Jim Bakker

9329. Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? – Jim Bakker

9330. You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know. – Jim Bakker

9331. You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. – Jim Bakker

9332. I don’t know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound – I remember somebody shouting, Jim don’t let them break you. – Jim Bakker

9333. I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don’t understand what happened to me. – Jim Bakker

9334. God’s forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do. – Jim Bakker

9335. They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn’t even – there’s whole pieces missing. – Jim Bakker

9336. Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado. – Robert T. Bakker

9337. Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. – Robert T. Bakker

9338. Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. – Robert T. Bakker

9339. As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator. – Robert T. Bakker

9340. At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. – Robert T. Bakker

9341. Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod. – Robert T. Bakker

9342. Feathers predate birds. – Robert T. Bakker

9343. I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull. – Robert T. Bakker

9344. I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. – Robert T. Bakker

9345. I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic. – Robert T. Bakker

9346. In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. – Robert T. Bakker

9347. The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. – Robert T. Bakker

9348. Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. – Robert T. Bakker

9349. One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered. – Robert T. Bakker

9350. One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. – Robert T. Bakker

9351. Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. – Robert T. Bakker

9352. To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. – Robert T. Bakker

9353. When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks. – Robert T. Bakker

9354. It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. – Robert T. Bakker

9355. You don’t have to be dowdy to be a Christian. – Tammy Faye Bakker

9356. I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. – Tammy Faye Bakker

9357. I shop, therefore I am. – Tammy Faye Bakker

9358. I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim. – Tammy Faye Bakker

9359. You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. – Tammy Faye Bakker

9360. He who avoids complaint invites happiness. – Abu Bakr

9361. Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims. – Abu Bakr

9362. Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it. – Abu Bakr

9363. Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy. – Abu Bakr

9364. Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. – Abu Bakr

9365. Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God. – Abu Bakr

9366. Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. – Abu Bakr

9367. Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. – Abu Bakr

9368. Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path. – Abu Bakr

9369. God blesses him who helps his brother. – Abu Bakr

9370. God helps those who fear Him. – Abu Bakr

9371. Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. – Abu Bakr

9372. Be good to others, that will protect you against evil. – Abu Bakr

9373. He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness. – Abu Bakr

9374. Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah. – Abu Bakr

9375. He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. – Abu Bakr

9376. He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. – Abu Bakr

9377. He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep. – Abu Bakr

9378. He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. – Abu Bakr

9379. He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. – Abu Bakr

9380. He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone. – Abu Bakr

9381. I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth. – Abu Bakr

9382. If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. – Abu Bakr

9383. If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice. – Abu Bakr

9384. If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. – Abu Bakr

9385. If you want to control other people, first control yourself. – Abu Bakr

9386. Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. – Abu Bakr

9387. Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. – Abu Bakr

9388. In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes. – Abu Bakr

9389. It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. – Abu Bakr

9390. Intentions count in your actions. – Abu Bakr

9391. Knowledge is the life of the mind. – Abu Bakr

9392. Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. – Abu Bakr

9393. Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. – Abu Bakr

9394. Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you. – Abu Bakr

9395. Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. – Abu Bakr

9396. O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. – Abu Bakr

9397. Muslims should live like brothers. – Abu Bakr

9398. Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest. – Abu Bakr

9399. Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. – Abu Bakr

9400. You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people. – Abu Bakr

9401. It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin. – Abu Bakr

9402. Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. – Abu Bakr

9403. When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek. – Abu Bakr

9404. When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. – Abu Bakr

9405. To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. – Abu Bakr

9406. There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. – Abu Bakr

9407. There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. – Abu Bakr

9408. The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. – Abu Bakr

9409. The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. – Abu Bakr

9410. The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah. – Abu Bakr

9411. The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. – Abu Bakr

9412. Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. – Abu Bakr

9413. Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair. – Abu Bakr

9414. When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God. – Abu Bakr

9415. I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm’s Deep as the final sequence. – Ralph Bakshi

9416. Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. – Ralph Bakshi

9417. All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives. – Ralph Bakshi

9418. Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There’s always cycles of good art. – Ralph Bakshi

9419. As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings – not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. – Ralph Bakshi

9420. Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. – Ralph Bakshi

9421. Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children. – Ralph Bakshi

9422. Film has to describe and show. – Ralph Bakshi

9423. I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. – Ralph Bakshi

9424. I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It’s important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you’ve got to treat them with love. – Ralph Bakshi

9425. I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. – Ralph Bakshi

9426. I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat. – Ralph Bakshi

9427. I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how Jackson ended up with the rights. – Ralph Bakshi

9428. You can’t second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. – Ralph Bakshi

9429. One of the best animated films I’ve seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn’t crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan’s face, but the traditional animation was spectacular. – Ralph Bakshi

9430. What’s most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I’m a great believer of energy and emotion. – Ralph Bakshi

9431. Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They’re boring mannerisms. – Ralph Bakshi

9432. They say I’m a revolutionary, but they’re all wrong. – Ralph Bakshi

9433. The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them. – Ralph Bakshi

9434. I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. – Ralph Bakshi

9435. Painting pictures didn’t make me a lot of money. I have to eat. – Ralph Bakshi

9436. I’m having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. – Ralph Bakshi

9437. My movies continue to be found and be sold because there’s something going on in them. – Ralph Bakshi

9438. My good films were independent and my bad films were not. – Ralph Bakshi

9439. Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. – Ralph Bakshi

9440. Lord of the Rings made me realize that I’m not interested in doing anyone else’s work. – Ralph Bakshi

9441. Look what Disney’s done to their animation department. There wasn’t an animator in charge of their animation unit! – Ralph Bakshi

9442. Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. – Ralph Bakshi

9443. I’m the first to admit that I can’t be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien. – Ralph Bakshi

9444. Sweetheart, I’m the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that’s all I’m going to say. – Ralph Bakshi

9445. Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. – Scott Bakula

9446. The great thing about show business is that there’s no mandatory retirement age. – Scott Bakula

9447. The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we’re in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it’s very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie. – Scott Bakula

9448. On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. – Scott Bakula

9449. I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly. – Scott Bakula

9450. I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn’t happen. That is my only – fear – in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn’t get abused. – Scott Bakula

9451. I’ve always been a big fan of time travel, and I’m very into the notion that some day we’ll be able to do it. Beam me up! – Scott Bakula

9452. I don’t think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity – it is not a level playing field. – Scott Bakula

9453. If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. – Mikhail Bakunin

9454. I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. – Mikhail Bakunin

9455. I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. – Mikhail Bakunin

9456. I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. – Mikhail Bakunin

9457. I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. – Mikhail Bakunin

9458. Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. – Mikhail Bakunin

9459. From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. – Mikhail Bakunin

9460. Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. – Mikhail Bakunin

9461. People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. – Mikhail Bakunin

9462. Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. – Mikhail Bakunin

9463. Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. – Mikhail Bakunin

9464. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. – Mikhail Bakunin

9465. From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. – Mikhail Bakunin

9466. Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. – Mikhail Bakunin

9467. Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. – Mikhail Bakunin

9468. Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. – Mikhail Bakunin

9469. Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. – Mikhail Bakunin

9470. By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. – Mikhail Bakunin

9471. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. – Mikhail Bakunin

9472. Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. – Mikhail Bakunin

9473. A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. – Mikhail Bakunin

9474. A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. – Mikhail Bakunin

9475. The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. – Mikhail Bakunin

9476. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. – Mikhail Bakunin

9477. To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. – Mikhail Bakunin

9478. The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation – which speculates upon the labor of people – will always find the means for its existence. – Mikhail Bakunin

9479. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. – Mikhail Bakunin

9480. To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin

9481. This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. – Mikhail Bakunin

9482. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty – by ceasing to exist. – Mikhail Bakunin

9483. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. – Mikhail Bakunin

9484. The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. – Mikhail Bakunin

9485. The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks. – Mikhail Bakunin

9486. The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. – Mikhail Bakunin

9487. The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. – Mikhail Bakunin

9488. The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. – Mikhail Bakunin

9489. Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. – Mikhail Bakunin

9490. I’m from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also – I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. – Bob Balaban

9491. I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I’m trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying. – Bob Balaban

9492. If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. – Bob Balaban

9493. Maybe I was 7 – I probably am exaggerating a little – and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn’t know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. – Bob Balaban

9494. My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. – Bob Balaban

9495. My family was loving… they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn’t anything dangerous, thank God. – Bob Balaban

9496. People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward. – Bob Balaban

9497. I’m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. – Bob Balaban

9498. My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school – he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. – Bob Balaban

9499. Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously. – Bob Balaban

9500. I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. – Bob Balaban

9501. I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually. – Bob Balaban

9502. I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called ‘The Last Good Time’. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn’t in it. – Bob Balaban

9503. I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. – Bob Balaban

9504. I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. – Bob Balaban

9505. I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often. – Bob Balaban

9506. I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. – Bob Balaban

9507. God, I’d love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. – Bob Balaban

9508. But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box. – Bob Balaban

9509. And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime. – Bob Balaban

9510. Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old – I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays. – Bob Balaban

9511. I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. – Bob Balaban

9512. In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell… we can’t dance synonyms. – George Balanchine

9513. The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. – George Balanchine

9514. One is born to be a great dancer. – George Balanchine

9515. In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. – George Balanchine

9516. God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do. – George Balanchine

9517. Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. – George Balanchine

9518. The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. – Emily Greene Balch

9519. A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. – Emily Greene Balch

9520. We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. – Emily Greene Balch

9521. We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. – Emily Greene Balch

9522. Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. – Emily Greene Balch

9523. Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. – Emily Greene Balch

9524. These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. – Emily Greene Balch

9525. There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. – Emily Greene Balch

9526. The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. – Emily Greene Balch

9527. The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility. – Emily Greene Balch

9528. The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable. – Emily Greene Balch

9529. The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. – Emily Greene Balch

9530. Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance – the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. – Emily Greene Balch

9531. Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. – Emily Greene Balch

9532. Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. – Emily Greene Balch

9533. It is natural to try to understand one’s own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. – Emily Greene Balch

9534. Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. – Emily Greene Balch

9535. In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend. – Emily Greene Balch

9536. A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. – Emily Greene Balch

9537. A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men’s minds all around the globe. – Emily Greene Balch

9538. A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. – Emily Greene Balch

9539. As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. – Emily Greene Balch

9540. Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. – Emily Greene Balch

9541. The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine’s Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration’s overall economic development strategy. – John Baldacci

9542. All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. – John Baldacci

9543. Why go somewhere else and start up all over again? – John Baldacci

9544. There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci

9545. Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes – this is the central job of government. it’s why all of us are here serving our state and our people. – John Baldacci

9546. Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. – John Baldacci

9547. Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. – John Baldacci

9548. I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don’t want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families. – John Baldacci

9549. Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine. – John Baldacci

9550. Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. – John Baldacci

9551. We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. – John Baldacci

9552. A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it’s pretty much the same every week. – Adam Baldwin

9553. It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that’s not me. It’s what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I’m a family man. – Adam Baldwin

9554. You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over. – Adam Baldwin

9555. The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it. – Adam Baldwin

9556. My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. – Adam Baldwin

9557. I’m like a fungus; you can’t get rid of me. – Adam Baldwin

9558. I’m always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it’s far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. – Adam Baldwin

9559. I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape. – Adam Baldwin

9560. I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I’m lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans. – Adam Baldwin

9561. I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall. – Adam Baldwin

9562. I feel I’m two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I’d like to pursue. – Alec Baldwin

9563. Bush wasn’t elected, he was selected – selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. – Alec Baldwin

9564. Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. – Alec Baldwin

9565. Doing these parts is not fun. It’s challenging, but no fun. It’s creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field. – Alec Baldwin

9566. Down with Dukes of Hazzard! – Alec Baldwin

9567. Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. – Alec Baldwin

9568. I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I’m not necessarily going to leave the United States. – Alec Baldwin

9569. You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there’s very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they’re the same 30 years later. – Alec Baldwin

9570. To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. – Alec Baldwin

9571. There’s less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level – forget about the media – than ever before. We’ve never needed people to think more critically than now, and they’ve taken a big nap. – Alec Baldwin

9572. There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time. – Alec Baldwin

9573. Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookie. – Alec Baldwin

9574. I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. – Alec Baldwin

9575. Let’s face facts, this is visual medium, there’s a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don’t make a career out of that anymore as an actor. – Alec Baldwin

9576. Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing. – Billy Baldwin

9577. The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don’t realize that he’s really funny. – Daniel Baldwin

9578. I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don’t you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get. – Daniel Baldwin

9579. One of the dreariest spots on life’s road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. – Faith Baldwin

9580. Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. – Faith Baldwin

9581. Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. – Faith Baldwin

9582. Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. – Faith Baldwin

9583. You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. – Faith Baldwin

9584. The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. – James A. Baldwin

9585. You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James A. Baldwin

9586. When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. – James A. Baldwin

9587. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. – James A. Baldwin

9588. Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James A. Baldwin

9589. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. – James A. Baldwin

9590. To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. – James A. Baldwin

9591. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. – James A. Baldwin

9592. Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. – James A. Baldwin

9593. There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. – James A. Baldwin

9594. There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James A. Baldwin

9595. The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. – James A. Baldwin

9596. People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. – James A. Baldwin

9597. The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others. – James A. Baldwin

9598. The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James A. Baldwin

9599. The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions. – James A. Baldwin

9600. The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. – James A. Baldwin

9601. The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. – James A. Baldwin

9602. The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. – James A. Baldwin

9603. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. – James A. Baldwin

9604. The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. – James A. Baldwin

9605. The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. – James A. Baldwin

9606. Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings. – James A. Baldwin

9607. People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. – James A. Baldwin

9608. The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide. – James A. Baldwin

9609. The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. – James A. Baldwin

9610. There is a “sanctity” involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James A. Baldwin

9611. Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James A. Baldwin

9612. No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. – James A. Baldwin

9613. No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. – James A. Baldwin

9614. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James A. Baldwin

9615. Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. – James A. Baldwin

9616. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. – James A. Baldwin

9617. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James A. Baldwin

9618. Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black. – James A. Baldwin

9619. Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours. – James A. Baldwin

9620. American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin

9621. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James A. Baldwin

9622. Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. – James A. Baldwin

9623. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James A. Baldwin

9624. Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. – James A. Baldwin

9625. Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. – James A. Baldwin

9626. People can cry much easier than they can change. – James A. Baldwin

9627. I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James A. Baldwin

9628. Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. – James A. Baldwin

9629. Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. – James A. Baldwin

9630. I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James A. Baldwin

9631. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. – James A. Baldwin

9632. I want to be an honest man and a good writer. – James A. Baldwin

9633. I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. – James A. Baldwin

9634. If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – James A. Baldwin

9635. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. – James A. Baldwin

9636. It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James A. Baldwin

9637. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. – James A. Baldwin

9638. Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. – James A. Baldwin

9639. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. – James A. Baldwin

9640. Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? – James A. Baldwin

9641. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. – James A. Baldwin

9642. I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. – James A. Baldwin

9643. The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black. – James Baldwin

9644. But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. – James Baldwin

9645. Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. – James Baldwin

9646. Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities. – James Baldwin

9647. If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not. – James Baldwin

9648. It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. – James Baldwin

9649. It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. – James Baldwin

9650. It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. – James Baldwin

9651. The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin

9652. An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

9653. The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. – James Baldwin

9654. The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin

9655. The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

9656. We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

9657. The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. – James Baldwin

9658. All along we find that social life – religion, politics, art – reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. – James M. Baldwin

9659. Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. – James M. Baldwin

9660. In Socrates’ thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. – James M. Baldwin

9661. In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. – James M. Baldwin

9662. Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

9663. In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. – James M. Baldwin

9664. Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. – James M. Baldwin

9665. The reason of the close concurrence between the individual’s progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other. – James M. Baldwin

9666. The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. – James M. Baldwin

9667. The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. – James M. Baldwin

9668. The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. – James M. Baldwin

9669. The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. – James M. Baldwin

9670. Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. – James M. Baldwin

9671. Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. – James M. Baldwin

9672. Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. – James Mark Baldwin

9673. A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider’s web. – Monica Baldwin

9674. My organs are too powerful… I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly. – Robert Baldwin

9675. I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity. – Robert Baldwin

9676. I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. – Roger Nash Baldwin

9677. I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. – Roger Nash Baldwin

9678. The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. – Roger Nash Baldwin

9679. The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. – Roger Nash Baldwin

9680. So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy. – Roger Nash Baldwin

9681. I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people. – Roger Nash Baldwin

9682. I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. – Roger Nash Baldwin

9683. The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. – Stanley Baldwin

9684. You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. – Stanley Baldwin

9685. The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves. – Stanley Baldwin

9686. War would end if the dead could return. – Stanley Baldwin

9687. I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason. – Stanley Baldwin

9688. Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies. – Stanley Baldwin

9689. I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. – Stanley Baldwin

9690. A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months’ experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience. – Stanley Baldwin

9691. A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. – Stanley Baldwin

9692. The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves. – Stanley Baldwin

9693. I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. – Stanley Baldwin

9694. Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. – Stanley Baldwin

9695. Don’t get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I’ll be honest with you. That’s the truth. – Stephen Baldwin

9696. I think it’s really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything! – Stephen Baldwin

9697. I was always a God guy. – Stephen Baldwin

9698. I’m a Jewish born-again Christian. – Stephen Baldwin

9699. I’m not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it’s not a physical fight. I’m going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it’s a spiritual fight. – Stephen Baldwin

9700. I’m very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I’m just living according to the standards of the world. – Stephen Baldwin

9701. The word of God – what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it. – Stephen Baldwin

9702. I’ve been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It’s death. It’s meaningless. – Stephen Baldwin

9703. What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn’t know it needs to promote itself. – Stephen Baldwin

9704. I’ve never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me. – Stephen Baldwin

9705. Jesus isn’t a logo, I’m not promoting some company, some brand. I’m just professing my faith. – Stephen Baldwin

9706. You gotta love these Christians, they’re humble people. – Stephen Baldwin

9707. I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. – Stephen Baldwin

9708. You know what, man? I don’t have time to worry about what people think. I’m focused on the youth of America. I’m focused on the kids who are dressing like whores. Because that’s the message in the media. – Stephen Baldwin

9709. The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. – Tammy Baldwin

9710. Americans are not saving enough for retirement. – Tammy Baldwin

9711. I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine. – Tammy Baldwin

9712. In my grandfather’s lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. – Tammy Baldwin

9713. Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve. – Tammy Baldwin

9714. A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible. – William Baldwin

9715. I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op. – William Baldwin

9716. A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life – and I don’t mean money. – William Baldwin

9717. Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set. – Christian Bale

9718. It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting. – Christian Bale

9719. The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it’s their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions. – Christian Bale

9720. Nuclear apocalypse – who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops. – Christian Bale

9721. No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn’t manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should’ve done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day? – Christian Bale

9722. My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character’s complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism – that’s what I was saying about the difference between the character’s message and the film’s message. – Christian Bale

9723. It’s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. – Christian Bale

9724. There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And ‘Batman Begins’ was what I wanted to see. – Christian Bale

9725. It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me. – Christian Bale

9726. There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they’re freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine. – Christian Bale

9727. It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That’s partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they’ve done before. – Christian Bale

9728. In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they’ll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. – Christian Bale

9729. In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief. – Christian Bale

9730. If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest. – Christian Bale

9731. I’ve had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I’m trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don’t want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that. – Christian Bale

9732. I’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous. – Christian Bale

9733. The interesting thing about a movie is the movie. – Christian Bale

9734. We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit. – Christian Bale

9735. What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There’s got to be something a little bit loose in there. – Christian Bale

9736. When it comes to films, people often don’t differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. – Christian Bale

9737. You’re creating a different world and the actor’s job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not. – Christian Bale

9738. So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, ‘oh yeah – that’s a great point.’ And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there’s so much more that he’s juggling than an actor. – Christian Bale

9739. I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. – Christian Bale

9740. I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn’t have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. – Christian Bale

9741. An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in. – Christian Bale

9742. I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I’m not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I’ll just see what happens with it. – Christian Bale

9743. I never want to turn something down because I’m afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make. – Christian Bale

9744. I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do. – Christian Bale

9745. I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around. – Christian Bale

9746. I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe. – Christian Bale

9747. I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn’t really onto anything good. The number of times I’m treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It’s really not practical. – Christian Bale

9748. I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I’m getting audited and I’m on the street and I desperately need some dough and that’s the only thing that I’m getting. – Christian Bale

9749. I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it? – Christian Bale

9750. All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You’ve said that you will commit to this part, and I just can’t live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. – Christian Bale

9751. I have a fear of being boring. – Christian Bale

9752. I don’t think I’m like any of the characters I’ve played – they’re all really far from who I am. – Christian Bale

9753. I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. – Christian Bale

9754. Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing. – Christian Bale

9755. But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya. – Christian Bale

9756. But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn’t mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out. – Christian Bale

9757. ‘Batman’ took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it. – Christian Bale

9758. And being as I’m somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them. – Christian Bale

9759. A movie star is someone people look at and go, ‘I want to be like that person’. There’s the responsibility of desire. It’s not something I’m interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother? – Christian Bale

9760. Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. – Arthur Balfour

9761. It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. – Arthur Balfour

9762. I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. – Arthur Balfour

9763. Enthusiasm moves the world. – Arthur Balfour

9764. I never forgive, but I always forget. – Arthur Balfour

9765. Biography should be written by an acute enemy. – Arthur Balfour

9766. The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. – Arthur Balfour

9767. He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

9768. I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world. – Fairuza Balk

9769. I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color. – Fairuza Balk

9770. We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9771. The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9772. The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe’s great achievements – liberty, peace and prosperity – as a given. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9773. Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9774. Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9775. Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9776. Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9777. Freedom is a universal value. – Jan Peter Balkenende

9778. Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden. – George Ball

9779. Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states. – George Ball

9780. The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel’s survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. – George Ball

9781. Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation. – George Ball

9782. Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias – and rightly so. – George Ball

9783. Nostalgia is a seductive liar. – George Ball

9784. I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright. – Harvey Ball

9785. There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character. – Harvey Ball

9786. The catch phrase for the day is ‘Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.’ – Harvey Ball

9787. We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. – Hugo Ball

9788. The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? – Hugo Ball

9789. Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. – Johnny Ball

9790. If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! – Johnny Ball

9791. That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve. – Johnny Ball

9792. The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. – Johnny Ball

9793. There are not the same factual shows anymore – children’s TV has become much more trivial. – Johnny Ball

9794. There isn’t a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn’t have a second job, for when there is no wind. – Johnny Ball

9795. You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball

9796. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. – Lucille Ball

9797. It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball

9798. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball

9799. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. – Lucille Ball

9800. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball

9801. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. – Lucille Ball

9802. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball

9803. Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts. – Lucille Ball

9804. Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. – Lucille Ball

9805. Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt. – Lucille Ball

9806. I’m not funny. What I am is brave. – Lucille Ball

9807. I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. – Lucille Ball

9808. I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. – Lucille Ball

9809. Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Lucille Ball

9810. I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off. – Lucille Ball

9811. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. – Lucille Ball

9812. I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. – Lucille Ball

9813. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. – Lucille Ball

9814. I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. – Lucille Ball

9815. I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball

9816. How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them. – Lucille Ball

9817. I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children. – Lucille Ball

9818. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’ t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball

9819. When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone. – Florence Ballard

9820. I can’t even picture being without rock ‘n’roll. – Hank Ballard

9821. Rock ‘n’ roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it. – Hank Ballard

9822. Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. – J. G. Ballard

9823. Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It’s going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. – J. G. Ballard

9824. Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. – J. G. Ballard

9825. Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. – J. G. Ballard

9826. I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. – J. G. Ballard

9827. In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom! – J. G. Ballard

9828. Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. – J. G. Ballard

9829. The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. – J. G. Ballard

9830. What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. – J. G. Ballard

9831. A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. – J. G. Ballard

9832. I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. – M. Russell Ballard

9833. We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we’ve made a lot of friends. – M. Russell Ballard

9834. It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. – M. Russell Ballard

9835. Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. – Robert Ballard

9836. I believe in just enriching the economy. And we’re leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet. – Robert Ballard

9837. I’m a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay’s geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. – Robert Ballard

9838. If you compare NASA’s annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA’s budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. – Robert Ballard

9839. Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook’s time than now. It’s amazing. – Robert Ballard

9840. There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. – Robert Ballard

9841. Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn’t enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet. – Robert Ballard

9842. The Titanic will protect itself. – Robert D. Ballard

9843. Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. – Robert D. Ballard

9844. Don’t confuse facts with reality. – Robert D. Ballard

9845. It is a quiet and peaceful place – and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. – Robert D. Ballard

9846. Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally. – Steve Ballmer

9847. We’ve grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good. – Steve Ballmer

9848. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. – Steve Ballmer

9849. Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have. – Steve Ballmer

9850. My children – in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod. – Steve Ballmer

9851. Our company has to be a company that enables its people. – Steve Ballmer

9852. Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world. – Steve Ballmer

9853. So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic. – Steve Ballmer

9854. The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. – Steve Ballmer

9855. We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. – Steve Ballmer

9856. We will make our products work out of the box. – Steve Ballmer

9857. I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team. – Steve Ballmer

9858. What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’ – Steve Ballmer

9859. We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference. – Steve Ballmer

9860. And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that’s there. – Steve Ballmer

9861. I’m very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There’s so much opportunity. Let’s just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it. – Steve Ballmer

9862. All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We’ve got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders. – Steve Ballmer

9863. I’m not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative. – Steve Ballmer

9864. Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We’ll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I’m very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish. – Steve Ballmer

9865. Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards. – Steve Ballmer

9866. Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that. – Steve Ballmer

9867. I come back to the same thing: We’ve got the greatest pipeline in the company’s history in the next 12 months, and we’ve had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we’re predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year ’06. – Steve Ballmer

9868. I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me. – Steve Ballmer

9869. I have lots of sources of information about what’s going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking. – Steve Ballmer

9870. I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life. – Steve Ballmer

9871. I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. – Steve Ballmer

9872. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. – Steve Ballmer

9873. Accessible design is good design. – Steve Ballmer

9874. Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

9875. Error is always more busy than truth. – Hosea Ballou

9876. Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. – Hosea Ballou

9877. Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou

9878. Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – Hosea Ballou

9879. Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. – Hosea Ballou

9880. Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. – Hosea Ballou

9881. There is no such things as “best” in the world of individuals. – Hosea Ballou

9882. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. – Hosea Ballou

9883. Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. – Hosea Ballou

9884. Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou

9885. The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou

9886. Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. – Hosea Ballou

9887. Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. – Hosea Ballou

9888. Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation. – Hosea Ballou

9889. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou

9890. Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. – Hosea Ballou

9891. No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work. – Hosea Ballou

9892. Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. – Hosea Ballou

9893. Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Hosea Ballou

9894. It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. – Hosea Ballou

9895. Hatred is self-punishment. – Hosea Ballou

9896. Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. – Hosea Ballou

9897. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. – Hosea Ballou

9898. Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. – Hosea Ballou

9899. You have to pay a lot of attention to what’s important, what’s permanent, what’s real. – Jim Balsillie

9900. In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they’re really, really buying internationally. – Jim Balsillie

9901. I don’t think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them. – Jim Balsillie

9902. A toddler believes that if you love a person, you stay with that person 100 percent of the time. – Lawrence Balter

9903. The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9904. It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9905. Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9906. Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9907. We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9908. To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9909. Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9910. The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9911. The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9912. The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9913. The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9914. St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9915. Prior to an individual’s encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9916. Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9917. Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9918. If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9919. If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9920. Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9921. But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9922. The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9923. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

9924. I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art. – Balthus

9925. The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. – Balthus

9926. The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. – Balthus

9927. Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. – Balthus

9928. Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. – Balthus

9929. Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. – Balthus

9930. Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really. – Balthus

9931. I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. – Balthus

9932. I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. – Balthus

9933. One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. – Balthus

9934. The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. – David Baltimore

9935. What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What’s its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. – David Baltimore

9936. When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain. – David Baltimore

9937. When are we going to say cancer is cured? I’m not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating. – David Baltimore

9938. There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue. – David Baltimore

9939. I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born. – David Baltimore

9940. I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves. – David Baltimore

9941. There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today. – David Baltimore

9942. The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. – Honore de Balzac

9943. Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. – Honore de Balzac

9944. Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. – Honore de Balzac

9945. Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. – Honore de Balzac

9946. Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? – Honore De Balzac

9947. The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. – Honore De Balzac

9948. The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. – Honore de Balzac

9949. Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! – Honore De Balzac

9950. The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. – Honore De Balzac

9951. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honore de Balzac

9952. The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. – Honore De Balzac

9953. The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. – Honore de Balzac

9954. Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. – Honore de Balzac

9955. Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. – Honore De Balzac

9956. The more one judges, the less one loves. – Honore de Balzac

9957. Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. – Honore de Balzac

9958. Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! – Honore De Balzac

9959. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. – Honore de Balzac

9960. Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. – Honore De Balzac

9961. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. – Honore de Balzac

9962. Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. – Honore de Balzac

9963. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. – Honore de Balzac

9964. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. – Honore de Balzac

9965. Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. – Honore de Balzac

9966. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. – Honore de Balzac

9967. To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. – Honore de Balzac

9968. For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. – Honore De Balzac

9969. When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. – Honore de Balzac

9970. When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. – Honore de Balzac

9971. When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. – Honore de Balzac

9972. What is art? Nature concentrated. – Honore de Balzac

9973. What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? – Honore De Balzac

9974. We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. – Honore de Balzac

9975. Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. – Honore de Balzac

9976. Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. – Honore de Balzac

9977. Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. – Honore de Balzac

9978. The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. – Honore De Balzac

9979. Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. – Honore de Balzac

9980. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. – Honore de Balzac

9981. To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. – Honore de Balzac

9982. Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. – Honore de Balzac

9983. Those who spend too fast never grow rich. – Honore De Balzac

9984. There is something great and terrible about suicide. – Honore De Balzac

9985. There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. – Honore de Balzac

9986. There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. – Honore De Balzac

9987. The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. – Honore De Balzac

9988. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. – Honore de Balzac

9989. The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. – Honore de Balzac

9990. Modesty is the conscience of the body. – Honore de Balzac

9991. The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. – Honore De Balzac

9992. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. – Honore de Balzac

9993. All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac

9994. Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. – Honore De Balzac

9995. Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. – Honore De Balzac

9996. Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. – Honore de Balzac

9997. Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. – Honore De Balzac

9998. Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. – Honore De Balzac

9999. Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. – Honore De Balzac

10000. But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. – Honore de Balzac