I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Honor de Balzac
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
Jacob Bronowski
If you can\\\'t do what you want, do what you can.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
William Sloane Coffin
It's going to be 20 feet high. It's going to have barbed wire on the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, "It will kill you Warning."
Herman Cain
If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.
Georges Bataille
Let me be clear. Our first line of defense is a simple message: Every group or nation must know, if they sponsor such attacks, our response will be devastating.
George Walker Bush
Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.
William Sloane Coffin
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Joseph Conrad
He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.
Pierre Corneille
Clemency is the noblest trait Which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Pierre Corneille