"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny."

Proverb, South African | Country | 3 bookmarks

"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."

Idi Amin | Country | 0 bookmarks

"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

Ackerman, Diane | Country | 1 bookmarks

"Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes -- the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government."

Pinochet, Amos R. E. | Country | 0 bookmarks

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."

Garrison, William Lloyd | Country | 0 bookmarks

"To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well."

Kuralt, Charles | Country | 0 bookmarks

"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope."

Hoover, Herbert Clark | Country | 0 bookmarks

"The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. The believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. But observe the results."

Rand, Ayn | Country | 3 bookmarks

"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."

Disraeli, Benjamin | Country | 0 bookmarks

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Gandhi, Mahatma | Country | 8 bookmarks

"Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Country | 0 bookmarks

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."

Durant, William J. | Country | 2 bookmarks

"The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Mothers | 0 bookmarks

"Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Marriage | 0 bookmarks

"Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Frigidity | 0 bookmarks

"Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Silence | 4 bookmarks

"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Gossip | 0 bookmarks

"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Silence | 4 bookmarks

"Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Gossip | 0 bookmarks

"The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Girls | 1 bookmarks

"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

Mcginley, Phyllis | Christmas | 2 bookmarks

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Body | 0 bookmarks

"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Fathers | 1 bookmarks

"The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Education | 4 bookmarks

"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Family | 3 bookmarks

"Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Privacy | 1 bookmarks

"Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Women | 1 bookmarks

"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Men and Women | 1 bookmarks

"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Marriage | 1 bookmarks

"Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Men | 1 bookmarks

"I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Men and Women | 0 bookmarks

"Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick."

Mcginley, Phyllis | Sin | 0 bookmarks

"Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory."

Miller, Arthur | Sales | 2 bookmarks

"The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture."

Brown, Robert Mcafee | Churches | 2 bookmarks

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Bacon, Francis | Virtue | 1 bookmarks

"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas | Principles | 4 bookmarks

"When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?"

Nyerere, Julius Kambarge | Dance and Dancing | 1 bookmarks

"The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock."

Straus, Oscar Solomon | Judaism and Jews | 1 bookmarks

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it."

Schweitzer, Albert | Deeds and Good Deeds | 1 bookmarks

"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."

Cheever, John | Loneliness | 6 bookmarks

"My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple."

Lennon, John | Inhibition | 2 bookmarks

"Gifts dissolve rocks."

Proverb | Gifts | 1 bookmarks

"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Proverb, English | Names | 1 bookmarks

"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore."

Szasz, Thomas | Insecurity | 2 bookmarks

"Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage."

Lovelace, Richard | Prison | 2 bookmarks

"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone."

Unknown, Source | Idleness | 1 bookmarks

"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."

Burroughs, John | Travel and Tourism | 1 bookmarks

"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."

Haliburton, Thomas C. | Failure | 2 bookmarks

"Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him."

Renan, Ernest | Jesus Christ | 2 bookmarks

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

Gibran, Kahlil | Adversity | 6 bookmarks

"What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?"

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De | Liberty | 1 bookmarks

"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards."

Richards, Keith | Rock and Roll | 2 bookmarks