Compulsions Quotes

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters

the location and number of instruments,

the geology of the area,

the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

To give victory to the right,

not bloody bullets,

but peaceful ballots only,

are necessary.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places.

He told me to quit going to those places.

They don’t want you to win.

They don’t want you to be successful.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man

who is able to think things out for himself.

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without.

There are only two

lasting bequests we can

hope to give our children

One of these is roots,

the other, wings.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

not to who someone else is today.

Keep your eyes on the customer,

not the competitor.

Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.

Much of the social history of the Western world

over the past three decades has involved replacing

what worked with what sounded good.

No president who performs his duties faithfully

and conscientiously can have any leisure.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Better than living a hundred years without virtue is

one day lived with virtue.

I like to be unpredictable.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally,

it comes from what you do consistently.

We are called to be witnesses to the divine presence in the world.

The basis of our political system is the right of

the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The only obligation we have is to do what we love.