Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.
I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
No, you will listen. For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. Because this isn't reasonable. If you're terrified, believe me--this scares the hell out of me, too....
Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because a...
You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to ...
J. Edgar Hoover: I have to wonder if you people realize the level of responsibility you carry. From my way of thinking, Motion Pictures are potentially the most influential form of communication ever invented. And there's no control over it. Your mes...
It is good to know the truth and to speak the truth. It is even better to know the truth and speak about palm trees.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Proverbs 21:9
It's better to die two years early than to live one year too long.
It's better to do good in the neighborhood than to burn incense far away.
Better reap two days too soon than one too late.
To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
It is better if you could say "Here he ran away" than "Here he was killed."
It is better to receive awards that you don't deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them.
Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.
One day before you is better than ten years behind you.
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense.
