Under Quotes - page 2

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. (Spike Milligan)
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. View quote
Ruth Gordon
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. View quote
John Updike
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. View quote
James K. Polk
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). (James Thurber)
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. View quote
George Eliot
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. View quote
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. View quote
Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. View quote
Edmund Burke
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. View quote
Edmund Burke
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary. View quote
John Rawls
Love is the law, love under will. (Aleister Crowley)
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. View quote
Washington Irving
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. View quote
William Morris
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. View quote
Henry Miller