valentine's week Quotes

Nations are born in the hearts of poets.

Covenants without the sword are but words

and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Nationalism is an infantile disease.

It is the measles of mankind.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Politics is not about being right or left,

it’s about doing what is right.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go,

what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother

and to marry Rachel?

The solution to my problem was only days away

in the hands of a tough, shrewd,

courageous man called Branch Rickey,

the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Time reveals what is hidden,

and prophecy guides the mind to reflection.

My mother was my first country,

the first place I ever lived.

Foreknowledge is a tool;

wisdom is knowing how to use it.

Fan the sinking flame

of hilarity with the

wing of friendship;

and pass the rosy wine.

The most dangerous phrase in investing is:

‘This time it’s different.’

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

You can’t always get what you want,

but if you try sometimes,

you might find you get what you need.

A good teacher, like a

good entertainer first

must hold his audience's

attention, then he can

teach his lesson.

Racism is still with us.

But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet,

and,

hopefully,

we shall overcome.

India can live without nuclear weapons.

That's our dream,

and it should be the dream of the U.S.

also.

Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism

because it is the merger of state and corporate power.