Quotes of: His Keyword

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Ron Fournier

To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

Michael Hastings

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

Robert Peel

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

Daniel De Leon

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Jeff Goodell

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Clara Schumann

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

Willie Morris

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

Willie Morris

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Erickson

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Lech Walesa

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

A. J. Foyt

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

Richard Widmark

If I played Bond, my dad probably wouldn't know what to do with himself. He'd probably put his shoes on the wrong way for the rest of his life!

Aneurin Barnard

My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.

Robin Wright

I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.

Raj Kapoor

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Robert M. Hutchins