You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.
In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
I've probably played more non-police roles than people realize.
Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.
There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.
In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.
Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?
Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.
I'm not fond of crunches or lunges, but I do them anyway because I do see results. For me it's about being fit and staying healthy more than anything else.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
