Robert Taft Quotes

#1. Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

Marie Brennan

#2. I believe that nothing passes without a trace and that each of our smallest steps has significance for the present and the future.

Anton Chekhov

#3. Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

Robert Taft

#4. Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

Robert A. Taft

#5. You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

Robert Taft

#6. Life truly is what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it.

Steven Redhead

#7. It's not how you look in the mirror that's important, what's important is how you are reflected in the eyes of the people who love you. --T. Hammond (Red Rover)

T. Hammond

#8. Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

Lord Kelvin

#9. It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Robert Taft

#10. I wandered in my mind, slowly, noting every detail of the labyrinth, its paths as familiar as those of my garden and yet ever new, as empty as the heart could wish or alive with strange encounters.

Samuel Beckett

#11. Don't be embarrassed,' she said, throwing an armful of clothing on the hook. 'I don't faint at the sight of a naked man. Triss Merigold, a friend, says if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#12. The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Robert Taft

#13. You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.

David Jeremiah

#14. Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Agatha Christie

#15. Byron!" exclaimed the little man. "Really? Dear me! Mad, and a friend of Lord Byron!" He sounded as if he did not know which was worse.

Susanna Clarke

#16. For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

Robert A. Taft

#17. To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.

Mark Nepo

#18. IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

Henry David Thoreau

#20. This may not however elevate your stature during the years you have remaining; for fame's a weed, but repute is a slow-growing oak, and all we can do during our lifetimes is hop around like squirrels and plant acorns.

Neal Stephenson