Bernard Quotes
The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.
I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.
Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all have in us. Some you can deal with but some will wipe you out.
...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery of God.
I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.
I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.