Life Quotes

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Walter Lippmann

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Walter Lippmann

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Walter Lippmann

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Walter Lippmann

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Walter Lippmann

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Walter Lippmann

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Walter Lippmann

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Walter Lord

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

Walter Lord

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Walter Lord

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Walter Lord

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Walter Savage Landor

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Savage Landor

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.

Wang Leehom

One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

Warren Littlefield