H M Kallen Quotes & Sayings

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts. — Blake Shelton

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance. — Horace Kallen

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week. — Lucille Kallen

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put! — Lucille Kallen

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me. — Lucille Kallen

He does his work very well,' put in Henry, with hypocritical generosity.
'I know. But that's all the more reason for severity. His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better than one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual - and, after all, what is an individual?' With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. 'We can make a new one with the greatest ease - as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself,' he repeated. 'Ah, but here he comes. — Aldous Huxley

The bonding ceremony is a walk through our peers, a family member or friend usually leads those to be bonded down that path with a white laced leash."

"You want me to wear a collar!" He placed a hand around his neck instinctively.

Lorn lifted a dark eyebrow. "The leash doesn't go around your neck." He glanced between Kallen's legs. — James Cox

The only person I let order me around is Zero! — Lucille Kallen

People of character don't allow the environment to dictate their style. — Lucille Kallen

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running. — Lucille Kallen

And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table. — Jeffrey Rosen

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them. — Lucille Kallen

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor — Lucille Kallen

There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows. — Lucille Kallen

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous. — Sara Sheridan

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat. — Lucille Kallen

The going is the goal. — Horace Kallen

You must think your pretty cool huh, just playing the critic and judging the world from the sidelines. — Lucille Kallen

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end. — Lucille Kallen

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling. — Lucille Kallen

Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week? — Lucille Kallen

I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he had a second horse waiting for me. — Lucille Kallen

What made such a plan seem workable was that for the early pluralists and their multicultural descendants society would have fewer and fewer traditional groups. The kind of pluralist society that Dewey and Kallen envisaged would go beyond rooted ethnic communities. It would become the evolving creation of "free" individual participants, setting goals under scientific direction and having their material interests monitored by a "conductor state." The world as conceived by pluralists was there to be managed and to be made culturally safe for its framers: Eastern and Central European Jews fearful of traditional Gentile mores and the uprooted descendants of New England Calvinists looking for the New Jerusalem under scientific management. — Paul Edward Gottfried

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ... — Lucille Kallen

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo. — Lucille Kallen

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen

It is difficult to walk, talk, eat, exercise, make love, or drive an automobile while reading. — Joshua Meyrowitz

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens! — Lucille Kallen

The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you. — Nouman Ali Khan

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it. — Lucille Kallen

From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they had been chained since the beginning of time. — Stuart A. Kallen

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. — Juliette Lewis

My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family ... — Lucille Kallen

We are brunch hounds. We also like movie dates. There's a lot of diners, a lot of movies. We're 'simple pleasures' people. It doesn't have to be crazy. It could be a 'Law and Order' marathon on the couch, or it could be dinner or a show. We like to mix it up. — Rob McClure

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke. — Lucille Kallen