J. E. B. Stuart Quotes

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

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.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

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

Language is the light of the mind

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

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.

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.

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

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

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

This is true Hollywood glamour! I am taking personal jewels from a screen legend and creating a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes,which will be worn by a movie star of today.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

Diversity means understanding.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

I'm thinking of taking a window cleaner's job to fill the spare hour in the evening.

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.