Age Quotes - Page 254

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

The extraordinary business does not require good management.

The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

Lack of knowledge - that is the problem.

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

There is no other way to settle the Syrian conflict other than by strengthening the existing legitimate government agencies, support them in their fight against terrorism and, of course, at the same time encourage them to start a positive dialogue with the "healthy" part of the opposition and launch political transformations.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.