Sons Quotes
One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.Real Live Preache
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.Sir Richard Steele
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.Dame Edith Sitwell
Strong reasons make strong actions.William Shakespeare
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.Walt Whitman
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.Robert Cecil
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.Rudyard Kipling
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all - Sufficient Saviour. He is well - Taught who learns these two lessons.John Newton
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster Fulle
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!Friedrich Nietzsche
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.Donald G. Smith
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.Will Cuppy
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
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
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.Ronald Reagan
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!Friedrich Nietzsche
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley
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
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.Friedrich Nietzsche
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.Simone de Beauvoi
No two persons ever read the same book.Edmund Wilson
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
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
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
