Eleanor Herman quote: "In 1891, Princess Louisa of Tuscany married Prince Fredrick Augustus, the heir to to the Saxon throne. The Prince won Louisa over with his gentle manner and striking blond good looks. Yet years later, disenchanted, she wrote in her memoirs, 'Although every princess doubtless at some time dreams an Ideal Prince Charming, she rarely meets him, and she usually marries some one quite different from the hero of her girlhood's dreams."

But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is r...
ELEANOR HERMAN

The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.
ELEANOR HERMAN

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, whe...
HERMAN MELVILLE

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLE

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into t...
HERMAN HESSE

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
HERMAN MELVILLE

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
HERMAN MELVILLE

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignit...
HERMAN MELVILLE

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself ca...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the co...
HERMAN CAIN

When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-to...
HERMAN MELVILLE

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLE

They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLE

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
HERMAN MELVILLE

The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
GEORGE HERMAN

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
HERMAN WOUK

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws...
HERMAN HESSE

It is not down in any map, true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLE

In glades they meet skull after skull
Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun,
Green shoes full of...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Life was a colorful painful pageant to her, in which right and wrong were wobbly yardsticks. Values ...
HERMAN WOUK

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives.....
HERMAN WOUK

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservat...
HERMAN CAIN

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught tha...
HERMAN MELVILLE

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with others; and along those fibers,...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
HERMAN MELVILLE

'I will have no man in my boat,' said Starbuck, 'who is not afraid of a whale.' By this, he seemed t...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction...
HERMAN KAHN

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmie...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence...
HERMAN MELVILLE

I saw a ship of material build
(Her standards set, her brave apparel on)
Directed as by madne...
HERMAN MELVILLE

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, fo...
HERMAN WOUK

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly...
HERMAN MELVILLE

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dre...
HERMAN MELVILLE

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be wea...
HERMAN MELVILLE

The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vi...
HERMAN MELVILLE

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own go...
HERMAN MELVILLE

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon Go...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticism...
HERMAN MELVILLE

The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the st...
HERMAN WOUK

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world;...
HERMAN MELVILLE

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
HERMAN MELVILLE

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantag...
HERMAN WOUK

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in real...
HERMAN MELVILLE

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will th...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove ...
HERMAN CAIN

Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Arie...
HERMAN MELVILLE

For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove...
HERMAN CAIN

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
HERMAN MELVILLE

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends....
HERMAN MELVILLE

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv...
HERMAN HESSE

The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election
HERMAN WOUK

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinct...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doi...
HERMAN CAIN

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
HERMAN WOUK

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLE

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
HERMAN WOUK

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
ELLEN HERMAN

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of...
ALEXIS HERMAN

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe ...
HERMAN CAIN

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man tak...
HERMAN MELVILLE

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing int...
HERMAN KAHN

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, ...
HERMAN KAHN

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media c...
HERMAN CAIN

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Socie...
HERMAN MELVILLE

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT ...
HERMAN CAIN

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity...
HERMAN MELVILLE

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also cre...
HERMAN KAHN

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are go...
ALEXIS HERMAN

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
HERMAN MELVILLE

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high mor...
HERMAN KAHN

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
HERMAN MELVILLE

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers ...
HERMAN CAIN

Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the sam...
HERMAN GOERING

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at t...
HERMAN CAIN

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cra...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
HERMAN HESSE

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. ...
HERMAN CAIN

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfu...
HERMAN HESSE

I would prefer not to.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticism...
HERMAN MELVILLE

This can not be about a race to the bottom.
ALEXIS HERMAN

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you ...
ALEXIS HERMAN

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, ...
ALEXIS HERMAN

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. The...
ALEXIS HERMAN

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today direc...
ALEXIS HERMAN

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of chi...
ALEXIS HERMAN

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. ...
ALEXIS HERMAN

There is no substitute really for learning about the world of work and being in the world of work. Y...
ALEXIS HERMAN

But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at s...
ALEXIS HERMAN

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Asso...
HERMAN CAIN

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an ar...
HERMAN KAHN

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all fed...
HERMAN CAIN

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you'...
GEORGE HERMAN

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and ...
HERMAN GORTER

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold peril...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. The...
HERMAN MELVILLE

This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true...
HERMAN CAIN

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
HERMAN CAIN

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but ...
HERMAN KAHN

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the ...
HERMAN HESSE

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relati...
HERMAN KAHN

That would mean would be icing on the cake. The past 27 years has been the cake, that would be the i...
BOB HERMAN

The joke was that we were retiring at the end of every year.
BOB HERMAN

What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an e...
BOB HERMAN

Those years I was the assistant coach at Lancaster Catholic and got to coach my son to a section cha...
BOB HERMAN

Defense is a big part of the game, and that was the difference in the game tonight. They had an inni...
BILL HERMAN

We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand.
BILL HERMAN

With everybody back on defense, that will be our strength. Everyone has experience playing in a regi...
BILL HERMAN

That was big. We were awfully aggressive.
BILL HERMAN

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the fir...
HERMAN KAHN

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for thi...
HERMAN HESSE

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, ...
ALEXIS HERMAN

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and b...
HERMAN HESSE

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
HERMAN MANKIEWICZ

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMAN HESSE

The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How...
HERMAN ANDREWS

(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. Thi...
HERMAN ANDREWS

I don't know how many people we're going to have participating, but if those people don't give 100 p...
HERMAN ANDREWS

They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't affo...
HERMAN ANDREWS

There weren't any great performances, but we won it.
HERMAN ANDREWS

We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a ...
HERMAN ANDREWS

It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it...
HERMAN ANDREWS

There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.
HERMAN ANDREWS

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
HERMAN MELVILLE

One right decision doth not a great president make.
HERMAN CAIN

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
HERMAN WOUK

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
HERMAN KAHN

It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equal...
ALEXIS HERMAN

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the c...
HERMAN MELVILLE

He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.
HERMAN MELVILLE

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
HERMAN MELVILLE

The great seal of truth is simplicity.
HERMAN BOERHAAVE

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and d...
HERMAN MELVILLE

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wond...
HERMAN MELVILLE

To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last b...
HERMAN MELVILLE

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart t...
HERMAN MELVILLE

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
HERMAN MELVILLE

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, ...
HERMAN WOUK

The average wage gain has been approximately 3.8 percent. That has been very consistent for this yea...
ALEXIS HERMAN

[The Jets' downfall started with injuries to Pennington and Fiedler in the third game and snowballed...
HERMAN EDWARDS

No utter surprise can come to him Who reaches Shakespeare's core; That which we seek and shun is the...
HERMAN MELVILLE

[In his mini state-of-the-Jets address on a conference call with reporters, Edwards revealed some of...
HERMAN EDWARDS

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellowmen; and along those...
HERMAN MELVILLE

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
HERMAN MELVILLE

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read ...
HERMAN HESSE

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all...
HERMAN CAIN

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to uti...
HERMAN CAIN

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be w...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Out-of-control spending by government requires a different kind of taxpayer group. AFP is that diffe...
HERMAN CAIN

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.
HERMAN CAIN

Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victi...
HERMAN GORTER

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows ...
HERMAN CAIN

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
HERMAN WOUK

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak...
HERMAN MELVILLE

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National ...
HERMAN CAIN

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there ...
WOODY HERMAN

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...
HERMAN MELVILLE

This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Call me Ishmael.
HERMAN MELVILLE

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man tak...
HERMAN MELVILLE

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race...
HERMAN MELVILLE

..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when i...
HERMAN MELVILLE

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking ...
HERMAN MELVILLE

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only w...
HERMAN MELVILLE

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Vir...
HERMAN MELVILLE

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys
HERMAN MELVILLE

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cra...
HERMAN MELVILLE

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, -for it is a sign of strength to be weak...
HERMAN MELVILLE

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of h...
HERMAN MELVILLE

It's closure, it's good. It's such a tragic end to such a sad story, but it's peaceful feeling for m...
LOUANN HERMAN

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I...
HERMAN HESSE

In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not al...
HERMAN MANKIEWICZ

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
HERMAN MELVILLE

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever e...
HERMAN MELVILLE

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters wi...
HERMAN KAHN

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