True line Quotes

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president

was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment

awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases

which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Do you want to know who you are?

Don't ask.

Act! Action will delineate and define you

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing.

I admire him.

I pity the creature who does not work,

at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Software is a great combination between

artistry and engineering.

One moment can change a day,

one day can change a life,

and one life can change the world.

You can’t just ask customers what they want.

The broader one's understanding of the

human experience, the better design we will have.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means

that there has been effort stored up in the past.

It is curious that physical courage

should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I don't have a therapist,

so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

A doctor can bury his mistakes,

but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

A liar begins with making

falsehood appear like truth,

and ends with making truth

itself appear like falsehood.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley.

He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand,

good can come out of it.

If the tongue had not been

framed for articulation,

man would still be a beast in the forest.

I have always done my duty.

I hope it will be remembered.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

As we express our gratitude,

we must never forget that

the highest appreciation is

not to utter words,

but to live by them.