Necessitous Men Quotes

#1. Necessitous men are not free men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Laura Anne Gilman

#3. You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Billy Graham

#4. Without love I mean nothing to you
Without love broken in two
Without love give me some value some worth
Without love no life left on earth.

Donna Lewis

#5. Karma has a way of catching up with you, especially when you laughed in her face one too many times.

Jay Crownover

#6. Poetry vs. Prose

One difference of course
is the length of the line.
And some people suppose
that prose doesn't rhyme.

But I have a theory
that's more like a question:
If prose is lengthy fiction
is poetry short suggestion?

Daniel Klawitter

#7. At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Jeff Henderson

#8. Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

Tom Holland

#9. The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

Norman Corwin

#10. An eye for an eye just makes the world blind

M K Gandhi

#11. Strong self-esteem depends on two things. The first is what most of this book has been about: learning to think in healthy ways about yourself. The second key to self-esteem is the ability to make things happen, to see what you want and go for it: literally to create your own life.

Matthew McKay

#12. Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

George Eliot

#13. There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

Natalie MacMaster

#14. I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Rowan Atkinson

#15. The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.

Henry R. Towne