Quotes & Sayings About Switching Feelings Off

We have an intuitive sense of our duty. — Jonathan Swift

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely. — Elliott Abrams

To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves. — Nagisa Oshima

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions. — Serge Lang

Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led. — Samuel Daniel

For The Crime of Sass. This Monkey Is Hereby Sentenced To Official Attitude Adjustment. — Danielle Paige

Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality. — Hector Carsewell Macpherson

For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious. There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, which it is not prudent to challenge, one judges by the result. — Niccolo Machiavelli

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people. — Corey Smith

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time. — Tracy Morgan