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While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. (John Adams)
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. View quote
William James
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now. View quote
Paulo Coelho
T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. View quote
Edward Moore
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. View quote
Ayn Rand
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer (shatterer) of worlds. (Robert Oppenheimer)
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. View quote
J. G. Ballard
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup.”. View quote
Louis C.K.
I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. View quote
Cat Stevens
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. View quote
Edmund Burke
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. (Tyra Banks)
Read my little fable He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. View quote
Michael Moore
I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious. View quote
Melanie Griffith