Fortune Quote #3749

Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have
exhausted all other possibilities. -- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #3748

The difficulty in planning against American doctrine is that Americans
neither see fit to follow their doctrine nor even read their
manuals. -- KGB Document

Fortune Quote #3747

The reason Americans do so well in war, is war is chaos, and Americans
practice chaos on a daily basis. -- Rommel, 1942

Fortune Quote #3746

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
-- Georges Clemenceau

Fortune Quote #3745

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is
all. -- Oscar Wilde

Fortune Quote #3744

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense
of humor to console him for what he is. -- Francis Bacon

Fortune Quote #3743

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command
the attention of the world. -- George Washington Carver

Fortune Quote #3742

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of
questions. -- Sam Keen

Fortune Quote #3741

The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its
homes. -- Confucius

Fortune Quote #3740

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Fortune Quote #3739

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is
an inconvenience rightly considered. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterson

Fortune Quote #3738

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not
understand it myself anymore. -- Albert Einstein

Fortune Quote #3737

No one should be under any illusions about the simple test for America in
Iraq. At the end of the day are free people celebrating because the
American people have sustained freedom against evil. Or, are violent, evil
enemies of freedom celebrating because the Americans have been
defeated? -- Newt Gingrich

Fortune Quote #3736

The hurricane is not more or less likely to hit because more hurricane
insurance has been written. In the financial markets this is not true. The
more people write financial insurance, the more likely it is that a
disaster will happen, because the people who know you have sold the
insurance can make it happen. -- Victor Haghani, co-founder of
Long-Term Capital Management

Fortune Quote #3735

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Fortune Quote #3734

The mark of a civilized human being is the capacity to read a column of
numbers and weep. -- Bertrand Russell

Fortune Quote #3733

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may
reach you. -- Kahlil Gibran, "Sand and Foam"

Fortune Quote #3732

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see
them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken

Fortune Quote #3731

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -- W. C.
Fields

Fortune Quote #3730

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
-- Mark Twain

Fortune Quote #3729

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He
didn't trust me so much. -- Mother Teresa

Fortune Quote #3728

A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and
businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at
cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up
better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen.
-- Julian Simon

Fortune Quote #3727

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop
discriminating on the basis of race. -- Chief Justice John Roberts,
Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School
District No. 1

Fortune Quote #3726

When people do not stop and think through certain issues, it does not
matter whether those people are geniuses or morons, because the quality of
the thinking that they *would* have done is a moot point. -- Thomas
Sowell

Fortune Quote #3725

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his
patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with
ideas. -- Godfrey Hardy

Fortune Quote #3724

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll
never be as good as a wall. -- Mitch Hedberg

Fortune Quote #3723

It is not on any map; true places never are. -- Herman
Melville, "Moby-Dick"

Fortune Quote #3722

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to
be. -- Kurt Vonnegut

Fortune Quote #3721

support for a deeply held American value as divisive. -- Newt
Gingrich

Fortune Quote #3720

It seems that only liberals can possibly see 85

Fortune Quote #3719

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the
work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard