Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.
SAMAHRIA LYTE KAUFMAN A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long; Here's health and ...
HENRY F. CHORLEY No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great prin...
HENRY F. ASHURST Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.
CARL F. H. HENRY The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
CARL F. H. HENRY A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
HENRY S. F. COOPER One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE Art must take reality by surprise.
F. SAGAN Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed ...
F. HAWES There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
F. ALBRECHT The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN To be human is to be imperfect. To be perfect is to be divine. To be divine is to ascend through dea...
CHARLES F To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, bu...
F. SAGAN If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
F. WIKZEK [But soon afterward, the decision blew up in Hillary's face. Breaking her habit, she read Newsweek t...
F. SCOTT Divergent thinking
F. SCOTT At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs.
F. SAGAN A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
F. SAGAN One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
F. SAGAN Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the ...
F. SAGAN A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
F. SAGAN I like men to behave like men - strong and childish
F. SAGAN War will cease when men refuse to fight.
F. HANSEN Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian...
M. F. HUSAIN I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
JOHN F. KENNEDY I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...
JOHN F. KENNEDY America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
JOHN F. KENNEDY In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New Yor...
JOHN F. KENNEDY My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planet...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote mo...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have th...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pas...
JOHN F. KENNEDY For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We a...
JOHN F. KENNEDY History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I'm an idealist without illusions.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The pay is good and I can walk to work.
JOHN F. KENNEDY There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...
JOHN F. KENNEDY In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending fre...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
JOHN F. KENNEDY When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad a...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for Preside...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
JOHN F. KENNEDY If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he mus...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the Un...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...
JOHN F. KENNEDY There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some m...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknow...
JOHN F. KENNEDY War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The human mind is our fundamental resource.
JOHN F. KENNEDY For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN F. KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The best road to progress is freedom's road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. ...
JOHN F. KELLY Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the j...
WALTER F. ULMER We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
WALTER F. ULMER In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and th...
WALTER F. MONDALE Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to televisio...
WALTER F. MONDALE I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they...
WALTER F. MONDALE I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
WALTER F. MONDALE Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single...
WALTER F. MONDALE Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like ...
WALTER F. MONDALE He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
J. F. POWERS I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body a...
J. F. POWERS The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
I. F. STONE If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Ar...
I. F. STONE Rich people march on Washington every day.
I. F. STONE The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be perform...
I. F. STONE Forgotten is forgiven.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
ANNE F. BEILER The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmen...
ROBERT F. ENGLE A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not hap...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemp...
P. F. STRAWSON Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary languag...
P. F. STRAWSON Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
ORSON F. WHITNEY It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
ORSON F. WHITNEY Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
ORSON F. WHITNEY Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his serv...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness a...
ORSON F. WHITNEY You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreci...
ORSON F. WHITNEY The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liber...
ORSON F. WHITNEY All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than th...
JAMES F. COOPER Wherever I find love I will accept it.
M. F. HUSAIN I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don&#...
M. F. HUSAIN I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
M. F. HUSAIN I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. HUSAIN Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
M. F. HUSAIN India is my motherland.
M. F. HUSAIN Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is ...
M. F. HUSAIN All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
M. F. HUSAIN I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.
M. F. HUSAIN They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
M. F. HUSAIN I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
M. F. HUSAIN I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
M. F. HUSAIN Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-st...
JOHN F. KELLY The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a ...
JOHN F. KELLY I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra a...
F. SIONIL JOSE Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies...
F. SIONIL JOSE The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those...
F. SIONIL JOSE The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment ...
F. SIONIL JOSE Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Jap...
F. SIONIL JOSE You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single mos...
F. SIONIL JOSE We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to unders...
F. SIONIL JOSE Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individ...
F. SIONIL JOSE You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As i...
F. SIONIL JOSE Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
F. SIONIL JOSE The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainm...
F. SIONIL JOSE Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity,...
F. SIONIL JOSE Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pr...
F. SIONIL JOSE We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equ...
F. SIONIL JOSE Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the ju...
F. SIONIL JOSE Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know m...
F. SIONIL JOSE The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape a...
F. SIONIL JOSE Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I acted my heart out.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do wa...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of th...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of an...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger wa...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then th...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exac...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superi...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a wa...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I though...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sit...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. ...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable wi...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of thei...
F. H. BRADLEY The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. BRADLEY True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEY Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEY Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEY It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand h...
F. H. BRADLEY The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temp...
F. H. BRADLEY There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. BRADLEY It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, be...
F. H. BRADLEY Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reaso...
F. H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B...
F. H. BRADLEY The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEY The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEY We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers...
F. H. BRADLEY There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. BRADLEY The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEY The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
F. H. BRADLEY