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“The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.”
Source : William McKinley's remarks on 1900 US campaign poster of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, July 12, 1900.
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“I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.”
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“You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.”
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“I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions of people gather at one place and, giving their actions order and regularity, kill each other, and it hurts everybody equally, and all are unhappy -- what is it if not madness?”
Source : Leonid Andreyev (2007). “The Seven That Were Hanged”, p.148, Wildside Press LLC
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“Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.”
Source : "The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall". Interview with Corey S. Powell, discovermagazine.com. July 29, 2006.
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“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.”
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“I think civilian Americans support the military very much.”