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about Quotes A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book. ... A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. ... A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he... A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an... A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, “I take thee... A good novel tells you the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells you the truth about... A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. ... A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the... A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. ... A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for... A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about... About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you.... About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ... [About the rhinoceros:] Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics.... Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed... According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done,... Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to... After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to... After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ... All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I... All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these... All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were... All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going... Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. ... Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.... America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is... America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is... An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening. ... An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing... An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. ... Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. ... Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. ... Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. ... As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our... As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of... Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. ... Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. ... Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.... Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ... Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ... Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep... Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three... Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. ... But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned... By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have... Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -... Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a... Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing When it is absolutely necessary. ... Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.... Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just... Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer... Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. ... Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every... Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ... Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you... Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you... Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than... Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as... Do you think the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the... Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's... Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind. ... Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down... Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick... Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. ... Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard... Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a... Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you... Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ... Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ... Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ... Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply... Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling... Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ... Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to... Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.... Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ... Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the... Football combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ... For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about... For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary... For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle... Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for... Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2.... Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same... God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ... Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may... Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may... History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and... History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally true…We never know enough about the infinitely complex... Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. ... How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the... Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - this is normal. The important thing is what we do... Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? ... I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your... I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.... I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge,... I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw... I believe we shall come to care about people less and less…. The more people one knows the easier... I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's... I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. ... I don't dream about actors and actresses; They dream about me. I am reality, they are not. ... I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck... I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places. ... I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ... I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things... I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the... I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must... I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to... I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to... I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. ... I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects... I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't... I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS... I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies,... I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales... I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you... I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ... I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning... I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics)... I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no... I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of... I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about. ... I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about... I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life... I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it ...... I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories... I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing... I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I... I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but... I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he... Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. ... If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that... If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or... If I have any belief about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to Heaven,... If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven,... If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house... If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ...... If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ... If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is... If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. ... If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, “You promised to pay for... If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. ... If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified,... If you ain't never pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it. ... If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation.... If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract - teach... If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If... If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped... If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ... If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ... If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world... If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go... If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively... If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and... If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the... I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara - I'll think about it tomorrow. ... I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something... I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as... I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle... I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. ... What do you want - an adorable... In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff... In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination,... In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. ... Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of... Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me... It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about. ... It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. ... It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you... It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.... It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is... It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is... It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine. ... It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often... It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic... It is not enough to be busy the question is: what are we busy about? ... It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The... It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it,... It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and... It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and... It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ... It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple... It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.... It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ... It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that... It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of... It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the... It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream.... It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave... It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get... It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer. ... It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference. ... [Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out.... Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just... Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, “I am not a crook.” Jimmy Carter says,... Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. ... Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms. ... Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is... Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine... Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.... Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the... Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has... Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether... Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor... Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church; they suspect and dislike the clergy: they are impatient of theological... Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive... Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily... Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily... Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. ... Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace.... Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ... Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line...one foot... Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. ... My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the... My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so... Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore... Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to... Never complain about growing old, Because so many never get the chance! ... No, Ernest, don't talk about action…. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.... No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other... No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time,... No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. ... No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in... Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble. ... Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. ... Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost... Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these... Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water... Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things... One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do... One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put... One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. ... One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.... Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where... Only lie about the future. ... Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ... Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we... Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we... Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.... Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy... Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ... Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with... Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time... Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. ... Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of... People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ... People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good... People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful... People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can... People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem... People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.... People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... And we wish you Godspeed. It... Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular... Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is... Poets generally love cats - because poets have no delusions about their own superiority. ... Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a... Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. ... Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. ... Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do... Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. ... Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one... So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what... Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your... Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions,... Some people just don't seem to realize, when they're moaning about not getting prayers answered, that no is the... Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided... Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex? Are you able to have a woman? He replied,... Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ... Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead. ... Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ... Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends; they go because they can't think of anything... The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left... The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters... The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. ... The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way... The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its... The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use... The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. ... The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight... The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do. ... The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are. ... The great thing about getting older is that You don't lose all the other ages you've been. ... The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.... The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of... The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language. ... The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the... The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. ... The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her... The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her... The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing... The more I know about men the more I like dogs. ... The most important thing about having goals is having one. ... The most important thing about having goals is having one. ... The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ... The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. ... The