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- The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000), CBC Archives
- We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
- Charlton Ogburn, "Merrill's Marauders", Harpers Magazine, January 1957
- The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-19-06
- I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "Modern Man in Search of a Soul"
- Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed!
(98 and 3-4 percent guaranteed.) - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech after 9/11 attacks
- About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.... - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh! The Places You'll Go!
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