The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that’s held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
I swear by that old expression, ‘One monkey don’t stop no show!’ The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don’t want to do it any more, when you think it’s hard.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
Art is for anyone. It just isn’t for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that’s irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
