Ameliorating Quotes

#1. Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Henry A. Kissinger

#2. I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Justin Sane

#4. Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Lysander Spooner

#5. I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into a sort of wounded dignity, which was centered in the darting passes of his deep-set, dark eyes.

Dan Lopez

#7. The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.

Charles Bradlaugh

#8. Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life
the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure
had gone steadily on to a climax ... And the harvest was what I saw.

H.G.Wells

#9. Is it just me, or is spooge the single least attractive synonym for dickglue?

Cory O'Brien

#10. The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.

Tom DeMarco

#11. I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Bret Easton Ellis

#12. Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.

Kathleen Casey

#13. The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

Joseph Priestley

#14. The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

Gerald R. Ford

#15. When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

Simon Baker

#16. It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Hugo Black

#17. People should know this of me: I will do what is required to keep our country safe and secure because, in the end, that is what people's livelihoods and jobs rely on.

George Osborne

#18. I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!

Lea Michele

#19. When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

John T. Cacioppo

#20. Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.

Kelly McGillis