Aimery I Viscount Quotes & Sayings

Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy. — John Kenneth Galbraith

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what 'my own good' truly was — Claudia Gray

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed — Isaac Asimov

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired. — Aminu Kano

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? — Alice Sebold

I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life. — Tal Ben-Shahar

So many signatures for such a small heart. — Mother Teresa

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. — Marilyn Monroe

Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night. — Angelus Silesius

There can be no love unless there is faith which means a feeling or vision of the ideal's beauty and this ultimately depends upon what intrinsic beauty the ideal has. The nearer an ideal is to Beauty of Consciousness, the greater the possibility of our loving it completely and passionately loving it — Muhammad Rafi-Ud-Din

But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! — Mark Twain

I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books. — Michael Gold