The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.
There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
I don’t care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
I think second place is always the most difficult one. It’s not a nice feeling.
I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.
Everything pales in comparison to deer.
Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.
I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.
In order to pay it’s got to be a pretty big winner. But if it’s a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you’ve got a very tough comparison.
The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.
Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe’s death, because our own life will also not last forever.
How meagre one’s life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one’s tombstone: a name, two dates.