Jean E. Sammet Quotes

#1. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

Colleen McCullough

#3. As smart as he was, though, I suspect even FDR didn't realize that once you created a bureaucracy, it took on a life of its own. It was almost impossible to close down a bureaucracy once it had been created.

Ronald Reagan

#4. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Euripides

#5. Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.

Burning Spear

#7. The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

Thomas Sowell

#8. Britain and America couldn't agree on shoe sizing, dress sizing, weight, distance or temperature measurements, but on the scale of breasts, we were of one voice.

Pauline Wiles

#9. Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

Kim Ki-duk

#10. My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

Isabel Allende

#11. There is only one limitation to our progress and that is our lack of information.

Sunday Adelaja