True line Quotes

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

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.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this.

It was just a day like any other day.

The only thing that made it significant was that

the masses of the people joined in.

No people is wholly civilized

where a distinction is drawn between

stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow;

there is no humor in Heaven.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to

strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion.

Your technique is atrocious.

I gotta stay real to myself,

that’s the code.

The rich invest in time,

the poor invest in money.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals

without ever going higher than a basement.

Only as far as the masters of the world

have called in nature to their aid,

can they reach the height of magnificence.

This is the meaning of their hanging

gardens, villas, houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Work expands to fill the time available.

Things do not happen.

Things are made to happen

Invention is not disruptive.

Only customer adoption is disruptive.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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I had plenty of pimples as a kid.

One day I fell asleep in the library.

When I woke up,

a blind man was reading my face.

When the world changes against you,

you have to figure out what to do.

Think of how stupid the average person is,

and realize half of them are stupider than that.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.