Merika Palmiste Quotes & Sayings

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. — S.I. Hayakawa

I think what happened is that everybody's impressions got formed in those first few minutes. And I felt like, by the latter part of it, I kind of clawed my way back into the discussion. But everybody's impressions were set at the beginning. And wholly apart from me and whether I was good or bad, you know, there were a lot of hostile questions. — Donald Verrilli Jr.

I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else. — Antonio Banderas

Everybody has talent at
twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty. — Edgar Degas

With God, everything will work for my good. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly

I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available. — Brandon Sanderson

Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment. — Eraldo Banovac