American)., Native : Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian
Abbey, Edward : Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top.
Abbey, Edward : A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.
Abbey, Edward : Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Abbey, Edward : A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Abbey, Edward : Taxation is how the sheep are shorn.
Abbey, Edward : The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Abbott, Edwin Abbott : Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways.
Abley, Mark : Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.
Abley, Mark : Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.
Achebe, Chinua : The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Achebe, Chinua : One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Acheson, Dean : The U.S. assumes Canada to be bestowed as a right and accepts this bounty, as it does air, without thought or appreciation.
Acton, Lord : Unlearned in history, people allow themselves to be governed by the Unknown Past.
Acton, Lord : The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Acton, Lord : Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Acton, Lord : The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Adams, Henry Brooks : No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Adams, John Quincy : We all have two choices we can make a living OR we can design a life.
Adams, Ansel : It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Adams, Patch : Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Adams, John Quincy : We all have two choices: We can make a living OR we can design a life.
Adams, Ansel : The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
Addison, Joseph : Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison, Joseph : The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Addison, Joseph : Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
Addison, Joseph : What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Ade, George : Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
Adenauer, Konrad : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Adenauer, Konrad : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Adenauer, Konrad : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Adorno, Theodor W. : Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Agar, Herbert : The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which people prefer not to hear.
Aird, Catherine : If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Alcott, Louisa May : Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
Alcott, Louisa May : I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Alcott, Louisa May : I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey : After a debauch of thundershower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Ali, Muhammad : The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Ali, Muhammad : Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are fought to map change.
Alighieri, Dante : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Alighieri, Dante : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Alighieri, Dante : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Alinsky, Saul : Organizers need to be well-integrated schizoids - ready to polarize in order to mobilize people and then be able to depolarize in order to settle matters.
Allen, Charles L. : Visualize, prayerize, actionize, and your wishes will come true.
Allen, Steve : If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
Allen, Woody : Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.
Allen, Woody : An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverbMaturity: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Insight: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Aging: You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Allen, Woody : I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying.
Allen, Woody : You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.
Allen, Woody : You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Allen, Steve : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910Prayer -Religion: If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
Allen, Steve : If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
Altman, Robert : To play it safe is not to play.
Altschuler, Michael : The ultimate paradox: Change is the only constant.
Amanpour, Christiane : War, at its heart, is a paradox. We are all appalled by it but also entranced by it. War is devastating, but it also brings about huge social and medical inventions. War appeals to the worst of human strengths, but it inspires ideals and qualities that are rarely seen in peacetime. And, above all, war is what happens when the things that we want to live for are worth dying for.
Amiel, Henri Frederic : The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Amiel, Henri Frederic : A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Amiel, Henry Frederic : Learn to . . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Amiel, Henri Frederic : Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Amis, Martin : Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
And, U.S. Journalist : Anything you lose . . . automatically doubles in value.
And, Caribbean-american Writer : Bigotry toward diverse forms of humanity (race, gender, ability, languagestems from the 
same root - an inability to recognize the notion of difference as a dynamic 
human force, one which is enriching, rather than threatening, when there are shared goals.
And, U.S. Journalist : It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he adores the flag.
And, Japanese Scholar : The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
And, Irish Playwright : All great truths begin as blasphemies.
And, Irish Playwright : All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Anderson, Janet : I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the mother of a grand-parent.
Angastiniotis, Tony : How can a solution come if everyone is trying to gain more and more? Nobody yet has said, What can I give for a solution, what can I sacrifice to achieve peace?
Angastiniotis, Tony : How can a solution come if everyone is trying to gain more and more? Nobody yet has said, �What can I give for a solution, what can I sacrifice to achieve peace?�
Angastiniotis, Tony : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one�s country; the shame is in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in.
Angastiniotis, Tony : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one�s country; the shame lies in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in.
Angastiniotis, Tony : There is no shame in accepting one's mistakes; the shame is in concealing one's mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in.
Angastiniotis, Tony : There is no shame in accepting one�s mistakes; the shame is in concealing one�s mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in.
Angelis, Barbara De : We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity.
Angelis, Barbara De : We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity.
Angell, Norman : The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.
Angelou, Maya : The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Angelou, Maya : You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Angelou, Maya : You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Angelou, Maya : Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.
Angelou, Maya : You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Annac, Wes : Unity does not mean conformity.
Anthony, Susan B. : I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Anthony, Susan B. : The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Anthony, Susan B. : The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
Anthony, Susan B. : A woman must not depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Anthony, Susan B. : I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
Antrim, Minna : Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Arendt, Hannah : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
Arendt, Hannah : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convince Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . no longer exist.
Arendt, Hannah : Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Arendt, Hannah : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
Arendt, Hannah : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
Arendt, Hannah : Luck serves . . . as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Arendt, Hannah : The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
Aretino, Pietro : I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Aretino, Pietro : I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Armour, Richard : Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.
Arnold, Stanley : Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.
Asch, Sholem : Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Ash, Mary Kay : Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Ash, Mary Kay : People fail forward to success.
Asimov, Isaac : The saddest aspect of life . . . is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Asimov, Isaac : A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.
Asimov, Isaac : Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
Asimov, Isaac : Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy,and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Asimov, Isaac : Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Asimov, Isaac : Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Asimov, Isaac : Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Asquith, Margot : There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
Astor, Mary : Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Auden, W.H. : A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
Auden, W.H. : I and the public know. / What all schoolchildren learn. / Those to whom evil is done. / Do evil in return.
Augustine, St. : The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.
Augustine, St. : It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Augustine, Jerry : The body manifests what the mind harbors.
Augustine, St. : Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Aurelius, Marcus : Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Aurelius, Marcus : It is not death that a man should fear, but the fear of never beginning to live.
Aurelius, Marcus : Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Aurelius, Marcus : Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Aurelius, Marcus : The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Aurelius, Marcus : What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies . . . the real man.
Aurelius, Marcus : How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Aurelius, Marcus : To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Aurelius, Marcus : Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Ausubel, David : The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
Aylwin, Patricio : We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex: as the Gospel says, 'wheat and chaff go together.'
Aylwin, Patricio : We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex: as the Gospel says, �wheat and chaff go together.�
Aylwin, Patricio : We human beings have a tendency to make absolute judgments, to judge what happens in terms of black and white. But life is far more complex as the Gospel says, �wheat and chaff go together.�
Aylwin, Patricio : Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Aylwin, Patricio : The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.
Aylwin, Patricio : Art should be like a holiday: something to give people the opportunity to see things differently and to change their point of view.