Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
OSCAR ISAAC It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you w...
ELIZABETH MOON That's pretty much the situation throughout the country.
MICHAEL RIGHT It was a good start for us. We had some big shoes with Tanner (Bloom) graduating.
ALLEN HORNTHAL It's just like building a house. You start with a foundation. Right now, the goal is to find some ca...
CARLOS ALFONSO Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL I knew right away, and I was kind of in denial to start with,
REX GROSSMAN Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
PETER DRUCKER Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
FRANZ KAFKA Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ...
CHUCK D Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.
ROY T. BENNETT Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the rig...
RYAN HOLMES Start with yourself, strive for continuous improvement, perfection doesn't happen right away
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Truth reveals itself when you start asking the right questions and start searching for the answers i...
REVANTH REDDY MITTA With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and...
NORMAN JEWISON All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,
Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL I support the bigot's right to speak out, as if I start limiting them, they may start limiting me. I...
LAURA PACKER With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
JIM RASH Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL We wanted to start this right with someone to tell us what we were doing.
WILL SMITH The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you fac...
NAPOLEON HILL I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro,
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE I think we are at the start of the right road. But we must play with humility, otherwise we can lose...
FERNANDO MARTIN I would like to start crying right now.
CLEST LANIER You want fame? ... Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. With sweat.
DEBBIE ALLEN They can establish relationships right from the start,
J. LEWIS They can establish relationships right from the start.
JO LEWIS Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to tr...
KEN HAM The right way to start your day...Guard well within yourself with benevolence, Hateful people will a...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
MAHAVIRA The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well...
PRATIK PATIL He could start for Arkansas right now.
GARY SNYDER We want to start off on the right foot. We want to start off with a victory. To come in here and los...
MICHAEL LEWIS They took it right at us. We were caught back on our heels right from the start.
ANN MCINERNEY Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
MARK TWAIN You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in yo...
TONY FADELL I'm under the gun right now, trying to start up manufacturing.
GARY LINDEN We start from scratch - that's good. They made the right call.
LUKE BODENSTEINER That is something we can start right now.
MARCIA HUMMEL I wasn't having a good feeling. We wanted to change something to start over. This week, I've made so...
SERGIO GARCIA I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.
DANIEL WU That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
DAVID GERROLD It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar...
KAREN MARIE MONING The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON I just never thought I'd get to see how beautiful you'd become
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot,” I blurted out. “But I always knew you would be.” m...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. ...
EUGENE H. PETERSON You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi...
DARREN SHAN Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid ...
NILESH RATHOD I knew right away and I was kind of in denial to start with. But I knew. I heard a pop. I tried to m...
REX GROSSMAN It's very important. We see growth in, say, the Hispanic community. It's the right time to start wor...
CARLOS MACIAS If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening t...
DR. SEUSS If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening t...
DR. SUESS It's not fun when you struggle and it seems like some of us are struggling a lot right now but we ha...
JOHN FITZPATRICK Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,
TOM SHEPARD It's a great night for us to start the year off right.
KATIE BAYNE We're too anxious right now. We have to cut down on our strikeouts and start putting some pressure o...
JUSTIN INSKEEP I want to start right away getting some ideas on where we want to add to what we have already done [...
LINDA CLARK They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
CAPTAIN JAMES Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?
Vicky: Why do you want to live?
Lermontov: Well, I do...
THE RED SHOES I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.
SOUNDARYA The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
LORD HAILSHAN You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would ha...
KELLY LYNCH I had a treatment done right after the season because I wanted to get some of that pain away before ...
ALBERT PUJOLS We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influ...
GORDON MCBEAN I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I alwa...
LAURA MVULA The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserv...
BOB FILNER We just got off to a bad start and couldn't right the ship.
HENRY FLECK There’s way too much that’s legal that’s just plain wrong.
CLIFFORD COHEN Matt gets the start due to game experience. If the roles were reversed, we would probably start D.A....
CONROY HINES If we had to start today, right now, the doctor would not clear him for contact. But we don't have t...
CARL PETERSON The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
LORD QUINTIN HOGG HAILSHAM The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
LORD QUINTIN HOGG HAILSHAM The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
LORD HAILSHAM I mean, I enjoyed being with the Ravens. I'm glad they gave me the opportunity. But I felt like I wa...
CHESTER TAYLOR We built that lead and I think that gave us some confidence. We've been struggling a little bit as o...
CODY ROSS Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
ROY BENNETT Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
ROY T. BENNETT If you are tired of getting the wrong answers, start asking the right questions!
TRAVIS J HEDRICK Right now I'm wearing several hats, and she's wearing several hats, and we will share.
RACHEL CARPENTER We wanted to come out on fire right at the start. We wanted to be the ones with energy and kept it g...
JACK LOOFBURROW Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS...
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WILLIE MAYS Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo...
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BILLY MAYS Not failure, but low aim is sin.
BENJAMIN MAYS . . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
BENJAMIN MAYS It isnt a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN MAYS The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to rea...
BENJAMIN MAYS Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if h...
BENJAMIN MAYS It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The traged...
BENJAMIN MAYS It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to...
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BENJAMIN MAYS My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had ...
JAYMA MAYS I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.
WILLIE MAYS If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other t...
WILLIE MAYS I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
WILLIE MAYS I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I u...
WILLIE MAYS I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems...
WILLIE MAYS Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For a...
WILLIE MAYS I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters...
JOE MAYS When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
BILLY MAYS Hi, Billy Mays here for...
BILLY MAYS Plastic keychain anchors like these can break too easily. It's better to use either heavy straps or ...
DON MAYS Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
WILLIE MAYS If people want to say Barry is No. 1, they won't get an argument from me. As long as I get to be No....
WILLIE MAYS Hopefully, they can say, "There goes the best baseball player in the world." I honestly believe I di...
WILLIE MAYS Long live your laundry!
BILLY MAYS The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
JOE MAYS When the electricity didn't work, when television didn't work, when the Internet didn't work, when p...
MARK MAYS We recorded it at Landmark Studios in Chesapeake, Ohio. We made 100 CDs and only have 10 left.
BLAIR MAYS My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
BILLY MAYS They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
WILLIE MAYS In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't dr...
WILLIE MAYS It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.
BILLY MAYS You can't leave Mickey (Mantle) off. Mickey would have to be in there.
WILLIE MAYS The home-field advantage in baseball, to me, I don't understand. I had to play as well on the road a...
WILLIE MAYS Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
WILLIE MAYS We knew we had to keep playing until the game was decided one way or the other. We played 10, 15 inn...
WILLIE MAYS I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
WILLIE MAYS Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
WILLIE MAYS A voluntary UL standard requires that the units remain upright when placed on a ten-degree angle and...
DON MAYS Intelligence is taken, wisdom is given, common sense is and remains yours.
HOSEA MAYS James Lewis was the first athlete I ever coached who really touched my heart. He was a special, spec...
DALE MAYS I classify players as good, great and warriors. James was a warrior. And he took care of so many tea...
DALE MAYS We believe what we are singing about. Our church has also been so supportive and so good to us.
BLAIR MAYS We sound a lot better since Jared joined us.
BLAIR MAYS Our choir director would always have us sing the slow, serious songs. You know, the songs that have ...
BLAIR MAYS Our preacher always signs his letters, From the Riverbank. We liked that.
BLAIR MAYS The really strong cards from the original game started in the few-dollars range. The Black Lotus one...
TED MAYS He was surprised Conrad would be in Indianapolis. This is just one of the few of however many there ...
WILLIAM MAYS Anytime you win, you hear about the old school pride. That's really all it is -- winning.
COREY MAYS James Lewis and those other kids in '78, '79 and '80 laid the groundwork for our state championship ...
DALE MAYS It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
WILLIE MAYS People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches t...
WILLIE MAYS You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back wha...
BILLY MAYS The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quiete...
DALE MAYS When he was little, I made sure my son, Aaron, met James and listened to our conversations. I wanted...
DALE MAYS With the rising costs of second homes, fractional ownership is really an affordable alternative.
KEVIN MAYS We are doing both fractional and whole ownership.
KEVIN MAYS This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like ...
JAYMA MAYS The most common cause of death is when people leave a generator running in an enclosed space.
DON MAYS And the sides are soft, so it's very easy for children ages 2 and 3 who can't swim to lean and flip ...
DON MAYS Portable generators are responsible for other injuries such as electrical shock injuries, or even bu...
DON MAYS A young child will open up a drawer on a dresser like this to try to climb up to reach something at ...
DON MAYS Each year about 10 to 20 people die after being entrapped in the trunk of a car. And it's not just k...
DON MAYS It may not be a very hard test to pass. It may not be enough protection in event of a rollover.
DON MAYS They've got Duke, McLean and Thomas going and then the guys around them don't make many mistakes. Wh...
ERICK MAYS They can just fill it up. We lean on both of them for scoring, and they play well together.
ERICK MAYS It was their worst shooting performance by far. There are nights like that sometimes, but that's whe...
ERICK MAYS He's definitely Division I material. The real key for him is to play with Boo Williams Summer League...
ERICK MAYS That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowl...
WILLIE MAYS I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me di...
JAYMA MAYS Just had a close call landing in Tampa. The tires blew out upon landing.
BILLY MAYS We were lucky it happened during the daytime. The smoke detectors never went off - they just melted....
DARRELL MAYS You are anticipating the take em. From the guide just waiting and anticipating. Soon as he calls, yo...
DARRELL MAYS We want to show people what we're about. You do that by winning.
COREY MAYS We all knew about the task ahead of us, but we didn't know about the task ahead of us. It was kind o...
COREY MAYS We just didn't take care of business.
COREY MAYS We focused on ourselves and the players at Washington. We respect Coach Willingham, but at the end o...
COREY MAYS We're just trying to show the country who we are.
COREY MAYS It has been difficult, but I just want to support my team. We're all good friends. This is a steppin...
JAMES MAYS It was not a commercial piece. It was an in-kind for people who wanted a piece of history. They want...
JAMES MAYS I can tell you that Darrell is looking forward to his visit to Kansas,
JAMES MAYS The in-home visit with Bill Self went well. Actually, the visit went extremely well. The staff did a...
JAMES MAYS Kansas has a great shot with Darrell.
JAMES MAYS The infomercial business has been good to me.
BILLY MAYS Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.
BILLY MAYS I've done well for myself.
BILLY MAYS I enjoy what I do. I think it shows.
BILLY MAYS I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.
BILLY MAYS Life's a pitch, then you buy.
BILLY MAYS I love beautiful wood.
BILLY MAYS It's important for me to sell a product that works.
BILLY MAYS Is it demonstratable? Does it have that wow factor? Is it easy to use? Is it priced right?
BILLY MAYS Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.
BILLY MAYS I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.
BILLY MAYS The best things in life are free - and $19.95.
BILLY MAYS We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In...
LOWRY MAYS We are quite pleased with our results for the quarter and continue to believe that we have a powerfu...
LOWRY MAYS This transaction gives us more overlap with our broadcasting operations, which ultimately enables us...
LOWRY MAYS When combined with previously completed repurchases of nearly $1 billion this share repurchase autho...
MARK MAYS We have reduced our inventory capacity approximately 20%, and thus we have to continue to focus on i...
MARK MAYS We have allowed ourselves as much flexibility as we can. We believe it's in our shareholders' intere...
MARK MAYS We continued to make progress in each of our businesses in the third quarter. For the second consecu...
MARK MAYS The kids who attend the academies aren't going to step down when they go to college (here). This wil...
LARRY MAYS We'll have all the bells and whistles. This is a place where when a recruit walks in the door he'll ...
LARRY MAYS The crux of the matter as we saw it is that it's censorship. It's a great thing (the students) are e...
LARRY MAYS I have two children who are currently very rooted in their community.
LORETTA MAYS I'm just really excited to be working with people who work together for the betterment of a communit...
LORETTA MAYS I was just walking through the door from the grocery store. I had felt really good about the intervi...
LORETTA MAYS We are not surprised (at being 4-1). We came in and expected to be real good. We lost a terrible hea...
KIRK MAYS No one expected us to win this football game, so that got our kids pumped up for this game. We had s...
KIRK MAYS We hope that doesn't come true again. We have a really tough region and I hope we are moving in the ...
KIRK MAYS We knew that we couldn't run the ball outside and we had to get the ball in between the tackles, bec...
KIRK MAYS It was a great pitch. It was the right pitch. He just went out of the strike zone to get it. That's ...
JOE MAYS Things can only go uphill from here. They can't go any lower than that.
JOE MAYS Hearing the boos for Sweeney, that's poor. He does a lot around here -- the fans need to back off a ...
JOE MAYS They came out swinging early and often. It was good to get here in this park and try to get the jitt...
JOE MAYS It felt good. I was just trying to throw strikes.
JOE MAYS They'd have their big dogs in there. No reason to show them everything you have.
JOE MAYS Interest only is also real popular.
JOE MAYS He stays in the game. He knows the scoreboard, the situation. He knows the game and he's energetic b...
JOE MAYS Get my velocity back up -- it was down a little.
JOE MAYS There are guys out here that are older, younger, shorter, taller, than me. But we all get a chance t...
JOEL MAYS It's a good workout and gives me a chance to play other guys that I would not necessarily ever get t...
JOEL MAYS We have coaches on staff who are out there every Saturday working with the kids. And our season is d...
MATT MAYS Sometimes, there's only so much you can do. All we can do is hold out a hand and hope they grab hold...
WHITNEY MAYS My name gives me a little more publicity, but there is some pressure living up to the standards of a...
WILLIE MAYS It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really commun...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to ca...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS Not failure, but low aim is sin.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tra...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if h...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United Stat...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS We have so many military families in our area, and this is a way to just stay proactive and give sup...
YVETTE B. MAYS Everything in life takes longer than we think - except life itself.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS It isnt a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS . . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The traged...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to rea...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON