Course Quotes - page 2

Ideas shape the course of history. (John Maynard Keynes)
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Evelyn Waugh
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Anthony Kennedy
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.
Gary Gygax
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
James Frazer
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program...
Poul Anderson
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
Abraham Pais
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
William Whewell
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
Mitch Daniels
Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. (John Muir)
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.
Edward Bernays
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Stephen Spender
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry Pratchett