F.H. Bradley Quotes

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

Good music is good music and that should be enough for anybody.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it's not worth it.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

Cycling has given me everything.

When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.