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american-journalist government louse man
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. Murray Kempton
american-journalist until
I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court. Nina Totenberg
american-journalist good people wants
Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
american-journalist
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. Alexander Chase
american-journalist refusal
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
american-journalist great man pass
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
american-journalist ceases
A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
american-journalist direction follow tend
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
american-journalist begins factory human run scrap time whether
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
greatness
There is greatness in everyone. Charlie Chaplin
greatness quality individual
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. Charles Sumner
greatness
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Charles de Gaulle
greatness france
France cannot be France without greatness.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
mankind
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd. Benjamin Franklin
passion oats dirt
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Charles Dudley Warner
passion desire taste
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
passion equality want
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
passion agriculture literature
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
passion pride ill-will
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
passion hunting breasts
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
passion exercise order
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
passion greed may
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
passion sloth causes
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.