Stanley Kaplan Quotes & Sayings

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want. — Edwin Morgan

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop. — Winston Churchill

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment. — George W. Bush

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least. — Wes Fesler

In doubt if an action is just, abstain. — Zoroaster

I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board. — Bo Derek

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind. — Alastair Reynolds

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. — Marc Bloch

You cannot make progress with excuses. — Cam Newton

Some men who live hard and in good health can't believe sickness or weakness is anything but laziness, a sham. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt — Bob Dylan

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. — Francis Quarles

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. — Sam Levenson

Frederick Douglass, of sainted memory, once, in addressing his race, used these words: "We are to prove that we can better our own condition. One way to do this is to accumulate property. This may sound to you like a new gospel. You have been accustomed to hear that money is the root of all evil, etc. On the other hand, property - money, if you please - will purchase for us the only condition by which any people can rise to the dignity of genuine manhood; for without property there can be no leisure, without leisure there can be no thought, without thought there can be no invention, without invention there can be no progress. — Booker T. Washington

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb