Compulsions Quotes

Everything has its limit

iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The difference between the almost right word

and the right word is really a large matter

'tis the difference between the lightning

bug and the lightning.

I’m as proud of many of the things

we haven’t done as the things we have done.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain

what I consider the most enviable of all titles,

the character of an honest man.

Once you replace

Negative thoughts

With positive ones,

You'll start having

Positive results

Comedy is acting out optimism.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws.

There is only the way of intuition,

which is helped by a feeling

for the order lying behind the appearance.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Desire is the starting

point of all achievement,

not a hope, not a wish,

but a keen pulsating desire

which transcends everything.

I’m a very visual person.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

Everything takes me

longer than I expect.

It's the sad truth

About life.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

There is nothing wrong with this,

except that it ain't so.

A man is a method,

a progressive arrangement;

a selecting principle,

gathering his like to him;

wherever he goes.

Sir,

my concern is not whether God is on our side;

my greatest concern is to be on God's side,

for God is always right.

There is no more dangerous enemy than a foolish friend.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The secret of getting ahead

is getting started