Rmuller Quotes & Sayings

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later. — Richard Brookhiser

In fact, the teenager's concept of "square" (f the term is still in use), when they talk about their parents, is almost identical to the concept of "cultural deprivation" as it is used by educational bureaucrats. In both cases it reflects an extremely self-centered and rigid way of looking at the world. Fortunately, with teenagers, it's a phase they grow out of. — William Ryan

Be not merely good. Be good for something. — Henry David Thoreau

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America. — Tom Vilsack

No domestic dispute between Franny and David had inspired the removal of their wedding rings. She would take hers off at work when she was giving scalp massages. Once she thought she had lost the ring, but she found it in the treatment room on a candleholder David had made for her during a personal failure of a pottery class he had taken the year he lost his job. After she found her ring, she started leaving it at home. — Amelia Gray

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free. — H.L. Mencken

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. — Richard Bach

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. — Antonio Machado

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule. — P. J. O'Rourke

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. — Julio Olalla

The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past, not infrequently falsifies its passport. — Victor Hugo

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined. — Neale Donald Walsch

You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty. — Ayn Rand