J. E. B. Stuart Quotes

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

Never ask for someone's thoughts on autism unless you are prepared to hear a story that doesn't resemble your own.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at.

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.