Al Ritter Quotes

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

I've watched Clueless as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.

From the time I got the first couple of scripts [of Jessica Jones], I always felt that this was groundbreaking material and a groundbreaking character.

We were very grateful that the response [for Jessica Jones series] has been so positive. If we get a great review, then more people watch it. It's so exciting!

If it's a good audition, whether or not I think I'm going to get the part, I do always say yes to going.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

I can generate attention quickly.

The United States is the laughingstock of the world.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.

God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.

The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt.