The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
NELSON BOSWELL Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
NELSON BOSWELL The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
NELSON BOSWELL What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really ...
NELSON BOSWELL To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with ...
JAMES BOSWELL Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
JAMES BOSWELL Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
JAMES BOSWELL Friendship,
JAMES BOSWELL For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a go...
JAMES BOSWELL I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
JAMES BOSWELL I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice form...
JAMES BOSWELL I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens...
JAMES BOSWELL Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
JAMES BOSWELL Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that ...
JAMES BOSWELL Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines...
LEONARD BOSWELL As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepa...
LEONARD BOSWELL The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and ...
LEONARD BOSWELL The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control ...
LEONARD BOSWELL We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...
JAMES BOSWELL The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made t...
LEONARD BOSWELL For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urg...
LEONARD BOSWELL The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.
LEONARD BOSWELL I've never played against Ching in the run of play. I've practiced with him on the national team, bu...
BOBBY BOSWELL Every day is an opportunity to improve as a player. I try and do something new after practice, wheth...
BOBBY BOSWELL Our goal is to shut teams out and not give up soft goals. But we also want to win games. Last year w...
BOBBY BOSWELL As a team, I think we're coming around now, and that's the important thing. I didn't expect to score...
BOBBY BOSWELL Through all of this, I have just tried to keep the big picture in mind -- that we're trying to win a...
BOBBY BOSWELL If I'm sitting in the stands, I'm not a happy fan right now, ... You don't see a lot of effort, not ...
BOBBY BOSWELL I saw a huge gap and normally I wouldn't have made that run, but I just wanted to give [Gomez] anoth...
BOBBY BOSWELL Early in the season we weren't getting the results we deserved. Now it's starting to go the other wa...
BOBBY BOSWELL With the formation we play, the style we play, people move around a lot. But the intentions are to h...
BOBBY BOSWELL It can always get better. I think we're starting to communicate a lot better, especially this year a...
BOBBY BOSWELL I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my u...
ROBERT BOSWELL I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
JAMES BOSWELL It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
JAMES BOSWELL Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them f...
LEONARD BOSWELL I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnso...
JAMES BOSWELL I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnso...
JAMES BOSWELL As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to ...
LEONARD BOSWELL We played a great ball game the whole game with just that one mental bust. Other than that I was ver...
JUDD BOSWELL I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, an...
LEONARD BOSWELL Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day...
LEONARD BOSWELL I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecen...
ROBERT BOSWELL He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
JAMES BOSWELL I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am
JAMES BOSWELL A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable p...
JAMES BOSWELL Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.
JOHN BOSWELL Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most envi...
LEONARD BOSWELL There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
JAMES BOSWELL A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himse...
JAMES BOSWELL He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it
JAMES BOSWELL I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, S...
JAMES BOSWELL The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That m...
LEONARD BOSWELL After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingeni...
JAMES BOSWELL There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against ...
JOHN BOSWELL Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old Eng...
JAMES BOSWELL When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight.
THOMAS BOSWELL A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
JAMES BOSWELL Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
LEONARD BOSWELL I just don't think they ought to have a monopoly on the casino licenses,
DAVID BOSWELL The legislature has to recognize that options to significantly increase state revenue are very few,
DAVID BOSWELL We've studied this issue enough, ... It's past time. Our state budget has a $1 billion shortfall.
DAVID BOSWELL I think it's not fair to impose additional taxes on just one industry,
DAVID BOSWELL I felt comfortable that ruling would come down, ... ... I was pretty uneasy taking that money out i...
DAVID BOSWELL We have to be guarded to keep a right-to-work law from passing, ... That will be one of our top prio...
DAVID BOSWELL We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...
JAMES BOSWELL The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communi...
LEONARD BOSWELL It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they...
LEONARD BOSWELL A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their...
JAMES BOSWELL We've got the two best big men in the state. They can't play us.
MARCKUS BOSWELL If they had offered earlier, I probably would have signed with South Carolina. It was like I was las...
MARCKUS BOSWELL We don't get into who scored the most. We just play as a team. That's all we're gonna do. I just wan...
MARCKUS BOSWELL We must send a strong message both to those who currently serve and to all veterans, including those...
LEONARD BOSWELL I've been very instrumental in pushing for the reform in our intelligence system, to have a national...
LEONARD BOSWELL We're still making a lot of mental mistakes. That's two weeks in a row when we should have had a shu...
JUDD BOSWELL They're a scrappy bunch and can really get after it. They're going to be well coached and have some ...
JUDD BOSWELL He had a pinched nerve and some muscle spasms, but he's doing fine. We expect to have him back in tw...
JUDD BOSWELL It looks like they're back. They look really good. It's going to be tough, especially down there. It...
JUDD BOSWELL I'm getting older every week. It's not going to be an easy hill to climb, but I can assure you these...
JUDD BOSWELL I was impressed. They stepped up big in the second half. We called them out and they responded.
JUDD BOSWELL Ronnie Patrick really stepped up Friday night. He is full speed no matter where you put him. He's re...
JUDD BOSWELL I think it helped us that no one expected anything at the beginning of the season. But now we're a m...
MATT BOSWELL Everybody just continued to believe in themselves. It was a struggle at first, but we kept getting b...
MATT BOSWELL It is the city's goal to get as many people as we can interested and involved in setting and impleme...
MAYOR KENNETH BOSWELL If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
NELSON DEMILLE Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
WILLIE NELSON As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
WILLIE NELSON I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
WILLIE NELSON If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
WILLIE NELSON Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning ...
WILLIE NELSON Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes...
WILLIE NELSON I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
WILLIE NELSON A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m...
WILLIE NELSON I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
WILLIE NELSON I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you...
WILLIE NELSON You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
WILLIE NELSON I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
WILLIE NELSON It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
WILLIE NELSON If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
WILLIE NELSON We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who...
WILLIE NELSON You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to ...
WILLIE NELSON Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met...
WILLIE NELSON I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb an...
WILLIE NELSON Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybod...
WILLIE NELSON England expects that every man will do his duty.
HORATIO NELSON They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...
TED NELSON The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowe...
TED NELSON The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions -...
TED NELSON So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut any...
TED NELSON Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
TED NELSON In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...
TED NELSON I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I...
TED NELSON But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted i...
TED NELSON I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am muc...
TED NELSON The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for th...
TED NELSON So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ide...
TED NELSON I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
TED NELSON So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the stru...
TED NELSON Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
TED NELSON Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independ...
NELSON MANDELA I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure border...
NELSON MANDELA Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizati...
NELSON MANDELA I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
NELSON MANDELA I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
NELSON MANDELA I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will...
NELSON MANDELA The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had un...
NELSON MANDELA I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed the...
NELSON MANDELA I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
NELSON MANDELA At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl...
NELSON MANDELA The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhun...
NELSON MANDELA Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a ...
NELSON MANDELA Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
NELSON MANDELA Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
NELSON MANDELA Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
NELSON MANDELA I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not k...
NELSON MANDELA I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of cou...
NELSON MANDELA Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who...
NELSON MANDELA Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitte...
NELSON MANDELA Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppressi...
NELSON MANDELA The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of ...
NELSON MANDELA There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happi...
NELSON MANDELA We can't afford to be killing one another.
NELSON MANDELA Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we...
NELSON MANDELA Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the ta...
NELSON MANDELA I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including ...
NELSON MANDELA Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freed...
NELSON MANDELA There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so ...
NELSON MANDELA From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer...
NELSON MANDELA When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t...
NELSON MANDELA Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example...
NELSON MANDELA You know, you can only lead them from behind.
NELSON MANDELA Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will re...
NELSON MANDELA There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the...
NELSON MANDELA Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
NELSON MANDELA I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the mom...
NELSON MANDELA I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstan...
NELSON MANDELA In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
NELSON MANDELA No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
NELSON MANDELA We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, ...
NELSON MANDELA If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
NELSON MANDELA Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
NELSON MANDELA I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as part freedom.
NELSON MANDELA Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
NELSON MANDELA Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challen...
NELSON MANDELA It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
NELSON MANDELA Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
NELSON MANDELA Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's ve...
NELSON MANDELA If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United State...
NELSON MANDELA I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
NELSON DEMILLE I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
WILLIE NELSON If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Tw...
NELSON MANDELA There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident...
NELSON MANDELA Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
NELSON MANDELA I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that...
NELSON ALGREN And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. Bu...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs ...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benef...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news. Im convinced t...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER They just wrestled up to their potential.
AL NELSON It's the best thing we ever did. We are really proud of what we do. We feel we are part of a team wi...
AL NELSON It's as important to know what not to say to them.
AL NELSON It meant a lot to us to have friends with us at a time like that.
AL NELSON It could be an hour or it could be seven hours. Every situation is different.
AL NELSON Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
BYRON NELSON I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON It's pretty much the same as spray paint. I think a lot of the student groups think it's the same as...
ALAN NELSON Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelm...
ALAN NELSON Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON It is a neat deal so people don't drive their car. We will have three drivers on New Year's Eve, and...
ALAN NELSON I felt some balls were dropped. We wanted ... to make people know it was largely their fault.
ALAN NELSON There was definitely a flaw in leadership.
ALAN NELSON We intend to vigorously defend the charges and we deny all of the allegations.
ALAN NELSON Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mis...
KNUTE NELSON Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still tradition...
PAULA NELSON Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's...
PAULA NELSON Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...
HORATIO NELSON