(842 quotes found)
“After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.”
Robert Bradbury
“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”
William Bennett
“Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.”
Colin Powell
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins”
William Pitt the younger
“Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.”
Robert Reich
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein
“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”
Yoko Ono
“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori”
Howard Gardner
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.”
David Livingstone
