Top 25 Javits Quotes
#1. I was born in Queens, New York. I've done every job you could think of in New York. Selling peanuts to Larry Fresh Fruit ices to dog walker to unloading trucks at the Jacob Javits Center.
Dito Montiel
#2. Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it
Thomas Szasz
#3. The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
Horace Mann
#4. There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.
Jacob K. Javits
#5. It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.
Aldus Manutius
#6. I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Thomas A. Edison
#7. You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.
Jacob K. Javits
#8. A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.
Jacob K. Javits
#10. 'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'
Jacob K. Javits
#11. Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
Jacob K. Javits
#12. Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#13. I am ready to depart," Ken'ichi agreed, pushing away from the counter. Elke rolled her eyes at him, then looked at Cyn.
"What he meant to say was, 'Hell, yeah, let's go fuck up a geek!
D.B. Reynolds
#15. It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.
Jacob K. Javits
#16. Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from what other scientists are doing. You have to tie concepts into everyday life, or they just won't be interesting for readers.
Leonard Mlodinow
#17. When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
Jacob K. Javits
#18. My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
Jacob K. Javits
#19. This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
David Halberstam
#20. It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.
Michael Chabon
#21. Nothing does have a sound. A very loud one that is unnervingly full of suspense for something to come along and fill it.
Giovanna Fletcher
#22. Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
Jacob K. Javits
#23. While I can have my mornings to myself," said she, "it is enough - I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.
Jane Austen
#24. There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.
Jacob K. Javits
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