1947 Ford Quotes & Sayings

Acting silly is one of the primal pleasures. — Marty Rubin

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God. — Thomas Merton

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war. — Andrew Jackson

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back. — Howard Zinn

When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own. — Criss Jami

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years. — John Walters

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God- the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself. — Kami Garcia

Divorce: fission after fusion. — Rita Mae Brown

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests
disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. — David Sedaris

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. — Georges Bataille

Men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence. — Geraldine Jewsbury

He's that guy: the lawless, solitary, hurricane-hearted one who wreaks havoc, blowing through towns, through girls, through his own tragic misunderstood life. — Jandy Nelson

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer. — James Fitzjames Stephen