Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its ev...entual domination of all peoples of the earth--they are the focus of evil in the modern world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your ...life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretary--not the top jobs. Anyway I wouldn't want to be Prim...e Minister. You have to give yourself 100%.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he shou...ld be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; when his lamp shone over my head, and by his lig...ht I walked through darkness; when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent; when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me; when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we focus mostly on how we might have been partly or wholly to blame for what might have been less than a perfect, problem- free... childhood, our guilt will overwhelm their pain. It becomes a story about us, not them. . . . When we listen, accept, and acknowledge, we feel regret instead, which is simply guilt without neurosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall, Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals,... Focus the tragic melancholy of the bright stare Into nowhere, a hole like the black holes in space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking... forward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find th...e positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »