Tenements Progressive Era Quotes & Sayings

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity. — Umberto Eco

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. — Osip Mandelstam

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education. — Robert H. Schuller

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did? — Harry Browne

I am not pompus; I am a as wonderful as I think I am. — Kimberly T. Matthews

There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as only mother's letters could be. She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade... — E. M. Forster

You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones or the Internet? I mean we - we are not - we do not have the ability to see the future. — Samuel Alito

Keep calm and keeper goin — Unknown

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.' — Lesley Ann Warren

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way. — Albert Einstein

You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it. — Myron Tribus

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. — Walter Russell Mead

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results. — John Gray