Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
When I wake up in the morning, I just can’t get started until I’ve had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I’ve tried other enemas.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The use of drones to improve public safety, agriculture and other uses will only increase.
Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
If you can’t see it, you can’t be it. It’s just having those brilliant women break out and do something – then other girls can say, ‘I can do it, too!’
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
During a few days’ halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
I’m interested in internationalism. It’s the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn’t sufficient any more. It’s about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
One eye sees, the other feels.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill… With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
The middle of ‘America’s Women’ is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, ‘Bing!’ I only recall that happening to me twice – once was with ‘Terrapin’ and the other was ‘Wharf Rat.’ I mean, that’s twice in a lifetime of writing!
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
I grew up below the poverty line; I didn’t have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
