W.D. Frank Quotes

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!

If I couldn’t play, I wouldn’t be alive.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

What is the son but an extension of the father?

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

With money, who needs friends?

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it.

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?"

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.