#Rain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Views Quotes
“It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”
“Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.”
“Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.”
“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
“To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.”
“I haven't been locked into just the sci-fi although I love it - mostly for the fans...It's tremendous to go out and do all these conventions and thank them for supporting the show. But it's been a mix...I mean I (also) love the warm and fuzzies (like Cedar Cove and My Best Friends' Dogs).”
“If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.”
“Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.”
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Sculptor
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. American Politician
Henry Adams Historian
John Hay Former United States Secretary of State