Category: Quotations

I want to change things.  I want to see things happen.  I don’t want just to talk about them.John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.William James

If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.Harry F. Banks

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.Confucius

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.Samuel Johnson

I have trouble listening to what he says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking.Alan Grayson, Democratic Congressman from Florida likening former Vice President Dick Cheney to a vampire after Cheney criticized President Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan; Time Magazine, 9-Nov-2009A great attack by the Democratic Party’s…

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.George Bernard Shaw