Alexander Henry quote: "The world is topsy-turvy, and it needs our conserving strength and influence. Pacifism has gone into discard and is no longer to be feared."

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath t...
ALEXANDER HENRY

We do not want German-Americans, Irish-Americans or Russian-Americans but just plain, every-day Amer...
ALEXANDER HENRY

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we no...
ALEXANDER HENRY

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten ye...
ALEXANDER HENRY

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loa...
ALEXANDER HENRY

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
ALEXANDER HENRY

Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER

On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER

As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER

Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER

Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER

Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER

Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER

As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER

Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER

Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER

Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I'm not interested in being liked.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
ALEXANDER LOWEN

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG

The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE

The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE

And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE

Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE

We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and th...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've buil...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard Univers...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER

This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off...
ALEXANDER SMITH

Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE

See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w...
EBEN ALEXANDER

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
EBEN ALEXANDER

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio...
EBEN ALEXANDER

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER

The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE

There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER

It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER

Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER

I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER

When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE

To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE

A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE

Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE

Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE

Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE

But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE

When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
ALEXANDER HERZEN

Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI

Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE

Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE

Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE

The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the...
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE

Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed...
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE

In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE

The world is topsy-turvy, and it needs our conserving strength and influence. Pacifism has gone into discard and is no longer to be feared.

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The world is topsy-turvy, and it needs our conserving strength and influence. Pacifism has gone into discard and is no longer to be feared.

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