Quotes
Quotes about Nation
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system can be considered respectable without one.
Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledgeâthey will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.
