Spped Quotes

Self

pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,

we can never do anything wise in this world.

You can’t just ask customers what they want.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course,

is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.

Speak softly and carry a big stick;

you will go far.

No man is above the law and no man is below it:

nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Work hard,

but stay true to yourself.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

Life is about perseverance and believing in your art.

There are a number of women

who have brought about immense change in society.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated.

It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

However able and faithful he may be in other respects,

people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

The harder the conflict,

the more glorious the triumph

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green

eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous,

beautiful,

and she still is today,

I'm crazy about her.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,

but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world,

but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

I do not believe in the God of theology

who rewards good and punishes evil.