Compulsions Quotes

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

During my life,

I have had a few nightmares which happened to me

while I was wide awake.

One of them was

the National Republican Convention in San Francisco,

which produced the greatest disaster

the Republican Party has ever known

Nominee Barry Goldwater.

Acting is the art of creating life in front of an audience.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Talent wins games,

but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Our future depends on what we do today,

not what we say we will do tomorrow.

It’s fine to celebrate success,

but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning,

but to teach life.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Show class,

have pride,

and display character.

All right,

then,

I'll go to hell.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones.

The months of November and May,

in particular,

are dangerous in this regard.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it.

The man who loves other countries as much as

his own stands on a level with the man

who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.