Sunday, March 9, 2008

Q Quotes

1. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck; a good physique and not too much imagination – Christopher Isherwood.

2. It was voluntary. They sank my boat. – John F. Kennedy When asked how he became a war hero. In Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House.

3. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone – Henry A. Kissinger.

4. Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness – Thomas Paine.

5. If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly ever see anybody – Agatha Christie.

6. Profit and Morality are a hard combination to beat – Hubert Humphrey.

7. One world at a time – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), His whispered response, a few weeks before dying, to his friend Parker Pillsbury who had wished to talk with him of the ‘’next world’’, April 1862, In Henry Seidel Canby, Thoreau.

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