Allan Houser Quotes & Sayings

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. — Martin Van Buren

Actually, the University of California says they may start a marijuana research center. Really? I thought the University of California was a marijuana research center. — Jay Leno

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. — Aleida Guevara

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. — Wilbur Ross

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents. — Joe Moore

Every sound reason is on the side of law and order in their insistence that the eternity of joy be reserved for the hereafter, and in their endeavor to subordinate the struggle against death and disease to the never-ceasing requirements of national and international security. — Herbert Marcuse

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I felt everything more intensely, saw everything as if a filter had been removed. — Jojo Moyes

I've learned that love is a beautiful burn in a quiet corner of the heart that won't be ignored. — Adriane Leigh

It is a crime to poison the minds of the meek and the humble, to stoke the passions of reactionism and intolerance, by appealing to that odious anti-Semitism that, unchecked, will destroy the freedom-loving France of the Rights of Man. It is a crime to exploit patriotism in the service of hatred, and it is, finally, a crime to ensconce the sword as the modern god, whereas all science is toiling to achieve the coming era of truth and justice. — Emile Zola

Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars. — Laura Teresa Marquez

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest. — John Pugsley

I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason! — C. JoyBell C.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals. — John Green

You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious. — Marcel Ophuls