S Nelson* Quotes

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Thank God I have done my duty.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us.

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

You can't hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.