Theodore Sturgeon quote: "The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?”
“It's purely a defensive device. We s...
THEODORE STURGEON

Ninety percent of everything is crap.
THEODORE STURGEON

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
THEODORE STURGEON

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
THEODORE STURGEON

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encounter...
THEODORE STURGEON

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying tha...
THEODORE STURGEON

The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
THEODORE STURGEON

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
THEODORE STURGEON

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be ...
THEODORE STURGEON

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retri...
THEODORE STURGEON

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five ...
THEODORE STURGEON

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
NICOLA STURGEON

I think it is important the communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly ...
NICOLA STURGEON

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.
NICOLA STURGEON

Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and ...
NICOLA STURGEON

If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just tu...
NICOLA STURGEON

I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, workin...
NICOLA STURGEON

Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequal...
NICOLA STURGEON

American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people - in fact, we are the best perfo...
NICOLA STURGEON

Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests w...
NICOLA STURGEON

I think the first decision I took when I became a government minister was to reverse the planned clo...
NICOLA STURGEON

I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.
NICOLA STURGEON

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.
NICOLA STURGEON

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.
NICOLA STURGEON

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of onl...
NICOLA STURGEON

As First Minister, I will always act in the best interests of the country. As party leader, I will a...
NICOLA STURGEON

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize...
NICOLA STURGEON

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would us...
NICOLA STURGEON

My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, sta...
NICOLA STURGEON

English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export mar...
NICOLA STURGEON

Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish pr...
NICOLA STURGEON

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is n...
NICOLA STURGEON

It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it ...
NICOLA STURGEON

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10...
NICOLA STURGEON

The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but...
NICOLA STURGEON

I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that peop...
NICOLA STURGEON

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
NICOLA STURGEON

If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.
NICOLA STURGEON

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to...
NICOLA STURGEON

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quic...
NICOLA STURGEON

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in ...
NICOLA STURGEON

Isn't it the case, ... that there were deep divisions inside the executive over the issue and rather...
NICOLA STURGEON

I hope it doesn't cause any added distress to Robin Cook's family.
NICOLA STURGEON

Political parties have to convince people that there is a real reason to vote and that will re-engag...
NICOLA STURGEON

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
NICOLA STURGEON

I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative ...
NICOLA STURGEON

One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people...
NICOLA STURGEON

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats...
NICOLA STURGEON

I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.
NICOLA STURGEON

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.
NICOLA STURGEON

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply c...
NICOLA STURGEON

Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the a...
NICOLA STURGEON

I've not had a deliberate image makeover.
NICOLA STURGEON

Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we woul...
NICOLA STURGEON

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of lo...
NICOLA STURGEON

Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
NICOLA STURGEON

He was one of the toughest pitchers we faced all year. He had heat and he threw a slider. The first ...
JACK STURGEON

It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the ...
NICOLA STURGEON

If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins ...
NICOLA STURGEON

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.
NICOLA STURGEON

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent,...
NICOLA STURGEON

I think Scotland will become an independent country. I've always believed that. It means that if...
NICOLA STURGEON

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essenti...
NICOLA STURGEON

Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin,...
NICOLA STURGEON

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national in...
NICOLA STURGEON

I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent count...
NICOLA STURGEON

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very ...
NICOLA STURGEON

I stand here today as the first woman first minister of our country. Every day I hold this office, I...
NICOLA STURGEON

The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about S...
NICOLA STURGEON

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may...
NICOLA STURGEON

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on...
NICOLA STURGEON

We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, si...
NICOLA STURGEON

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power...
NICOLA STURGEON

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westmi...
NICOLA STURGEON

For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is we...
NICOLA STURGEON

We already know that social security is more affordable in Scotland than it is in the rest of the U....
NICOLA STURGEON

I consider myself a selfie specialist.
NICOLA STURGEON

An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and do...
NICOLA STURGEON

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served b...
NICOLA STURGEON

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but......
NICOLA STURGEON

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.
NICOLA STURGEON

Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
NICOLA STURGEON

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.
NICOLA STURGEON

Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and...
NICOLA STURGEON

Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis ...
NICOLA STURGEON

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less...
NICOLA STURGEON

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.
NICOLA STURGEON

Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and y...
NICOLA STURGEON

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
NICOLA STURGEON

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.
NICOLA STURGEON

It's a classic Labour hype.
NICOLA STURGEON

It was a game not under the greatest conditions. It was not a day for pitchers with the wind. All th...
JACK STURGEON

We stabilized there and showed some life. We didn't fold the tents. Offensively and defensively, we ...
JACK STURGEON

We had already scored one run, and he scored three to break it open.
JACK STURGEON

If it was close by, he was there.
JACK STURGEON

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice mu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certai...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Voting is a civic sacrament.
THEODORE HESBURGH

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and th...
THEODORE ZELDIN

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obs...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
THEODORE GERICAULT

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

My view was that every executive officer, and above all every executive officer in high position, wa...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monument...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was eith...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he sho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Every man has a right to one country. He has a right to love and serve that country and to feel that...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the worl...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom thi...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
THEODORE ROETHKE

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with peop...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
THEODORE HESBURGH

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate c...
THEODORE HESBURGH

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trum...
THEODORE HESBURGH

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the...
THEODORE BIKEL

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shin...
THEODORE ROETHKE

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE RUBIN

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
THEODORE PARKER

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out h...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not gui...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loude...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Politics is the science of urgencies.
THEODORE PARKER

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE WHITE

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful ...
THEODORE DALRYMPLE

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this pla...
THEODORE WHITE

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
THEODORE ROETHKE

He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been...
THEODORE WHITE

In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on ...
THEODORE FORSTMANN

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisit...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that hav...
THEODORE RUBIN

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I ha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.
THEODORE TRONCHIN

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds a...
THEODORE MUNGERS

All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
THEODORE ROETHKE

CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
THEODORE HESBURGH

A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE HESBURGH

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
THEODORE LEAVITT

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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