Quotes of: David-bowie Keyword

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Arthur Hugh Clough

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.

Amanda Lindhout

Todo pasa y todo queda, / Pero lo nuestro es pasar, / Pasar haciendo caminos,/ Caminos sobre el mar.

Antonio Machado

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Antisthenes

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

Alice Oswald

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Anna Quindlen

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Aeschylus

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Alexander McCall Smith

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

Art Spiegelman

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Adam Smith

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Allen Tate

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Allen Tate

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

Basil Bunting

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

Beverly Cleary