Sons Quotes
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.James Arthur Baldwin
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.Charles Dickens
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.George Santayana
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.Thomas Carlyle
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.Leonard Bernstein
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.Henry Mille
Now we are all sons of bitches.Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dr. Dale E. Turne
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.Nigerian Prove
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.La Rochefoucauld
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Ronald Reagan
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.Fyodor Dostoevsky
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.Charles Caleb Colton
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise Pascal
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.H. L. Mencken
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.Sidney J. Harris
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.Woody Allen
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.Pablo Picasso
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
