Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Austin Dobson

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

The best university is the university of life.

Henry A. Kissinger

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

Henry A. Kissinger

When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.

Helen Hunt Jackson

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Henry George

It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.

Henry George

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Henry Hazlitt

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

Helmut Kohl

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

Mandy Patinkin

This is unbearable how I talk.

Mallory Ortberg

Don't let a friend make you feel publicly uncomfortable indefinitely just because they're probably a lesbian.

Malcolm X

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

Malcolm X

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

Mahatma Gandhi

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

Mahatma Gandhi

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

Mahatma Gandhi

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

John C. Maxwell

There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership of it. They get their identity, purpose, and energy from the unique place their church is to be in that community.

Jacob Bronowski

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

Jacob Bronowski

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

And that has significant implications for the unfolding of all this.

The cardinal's understanding is that he'll be here another two years or so.

This is one of those very unusual years.

This is my worst nightmare. I don't understand it. I'm in a daze.

Eric Hoffer

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

Eric Hoffer

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

Eric Bolling

A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.

Emmylou Harris

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.