Stripes Francis Quotes & Sayings

I'm a blind optimist when going into things. — Eric Fellner

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life. — Eric Butterworth

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was. — Clarence Thomas

The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions. — Clive Bell

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it. — Robert Kiyosaki

Success is nothing without morals — Fayrouz Yasser

Let us who hail from Ireland stand to the last by the stars and stripes! — Thomas Francis Meagher

That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic. — George Lucas

Say it with words. Show it with action. — Ron Kaufman

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits. — John Shelby Spong

The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it. — Anne Beatts

And so we drifted towards calamity. At times, Cicero was shrewd enough to see it. "Can a constitution devised centuries ago to replace a monarchy, and based upon a citizens' militia, possibly hope to run an empire whose scope is beyond anything ever dreamed of by its framers? Or must the existence of standing armies and the influx of inconceivable wealth inevitably destroy our democratic system? — Robert Harris