Quotes About Patriots And Tyrants

#1. Capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#2. I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

Renny Harlin

#3. It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

Aimee Bender

#4. Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

Dalai Lama

#5. If you're wearing it to 'da club, you shouldn't be wearing it to 'da office.

Clinton Kelly

#6. Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out!

Christopher Titus

#7. Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Patricia Ireland

#8. Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

Seneca The Younger

#10. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

Michael Dirda

#11. He has thrown the dice, and our number has turned up!

Andrew W. Field

#12. Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs ... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

Edwin A. Abbott

#13. We all live and die for the stories and the sounds. Sometimes we find them, other times they just happen upon us. We don't always get a choice.

Bob Mould

#14. Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

Gary Oldman