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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"future"
] |
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"friendship",
"politics",
"teacher"
] |
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"equality",
"great",
"women"
] |
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"hope",
"motivational"
] |
The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"science"
] |
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"history",
"strength"
] |
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"sympathy"
] |
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"home",
"pet"
] |
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"change"
] |
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"history"
] |
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"peace"
] |
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"cool"
] |
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"politics",
"science",
"society"
] |
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"god"
] |
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"government"
] |
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"education",
"science"
] |
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"respect"
] |
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"history"
] |
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"government",
"history",
"power"
] |
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"history"
] |
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"business",
"politics"
] |
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"religion",
"work"
] |
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"peace"
] |
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"intelligence"
] |
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"business",
"god"
] |
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"government",
"great",
"men"
] |
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"government"
] |
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. | Woodrow Wilson | [
"experience"
] |
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. | Woody Allen | [
"death",
"experience"
] |
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. | Woody Allen | [
"education",
"teacher"
] |
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. | Woody Allen | [
"life",
"success"
] |
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . | Woody Allen | [
"death"
] |
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. | Woody Allen | [
"car"
] |
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. | Woody Allen | [
"experience",
"good",
"love"
] |
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. | Woody Allen | [
"failure"
] |
I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! | Woody Allen | [
"great"
] |
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. | Woody Allen | [
"funny"
] |
Eighty percent of success is showing up. | Woody Allen | [
"success"
] |
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. | Woody Allen | [
"food"
] |
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. | Woody Allen | [
"money"
] |
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. | Woody Allen | [
"god"
] |
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. | Woody Allen | [
"god"
] |
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. | Woody Allen | [
"art"
] |
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. | Woody Allen | [
"education"
] |
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. | Woody Allen | [
"god",
"nature"
] |
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. | Woody Allen | [
"food"
] |
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. | Woody Allen | [
"nature",
"time"
] |
Marriage is the death of hope. | Woody Allen | [
"death",
"hope",
"marriage"
] |
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. | Woody Allen | [
"death",
"funny"
] |
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. | Woody Allen | [
"good"
] |
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. | Woody Allen | [
"home",
"marriage"
] |
To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. | Woody Allen | [
"god"
] |
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. | Woody Allen | [
"thankful"
] |
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. | Woody Allen | [
"good"
] |
I am two with nature. | Woody Allen | [
"nature"
] |
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. | Woody Allen | [
"government"
] |
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. | Woody Allen | [
"food"
] |
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. | Woody Allen | [
"funny"
] |
I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. | Woody Allen | [
"change",
"funny"
] |
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea. | Woody Allen | [
"money"
] |
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. | Woody Allen | [
"funny"
] |
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? | Woody Allen | [
"death"
] |
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. | Woody Allen | [
"god"
] |
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. | Woody Allen | [
"movies"
] |
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. | Woody Allen | [
"work"
] |
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. | Woody Allen | [
"funny"
] |
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. | Woody Allen | [
"peace",
"war"
] |
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. | Woody Allen | [
"time"
] |
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. | Woody Guthrie | [
"change"
] |
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. | Xenophanes | [
"god"
] |
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. | Xenophanes | [
"truth"
] |
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. | Xenophon | [
"beauty"
] |
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. | Xenophon | [
"government"
] |
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. | Xenophon | [
"beauty"
] |
Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. | Xenophon | [
"sympathy"
] |
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. | Xenophon | [
"best"
] |
The search for religion is the starting point of thought. | Xu Zhimo | [
"religion"
] |
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. | Yasser Arafat | [
"death"
] |
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. | Yasser Arafat | [
"peace",
"war"
] |
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. | Yasser Arafat | [
"freedom"
] |
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | [
"time"
] |
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | [
"poetry"
] |
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | [
"poetry"
] |
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | [
"happiness"
] |
Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"death"
] |
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"alone",
"peace"
] |
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
Give peace a chance. | Yitzhak Rabin | [
"peace"
] |
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. | Yitzhak Shamir | [
"leadership"
] |
A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know. | Yogi Berra | [
"truth"
] |
I don't mean to be funny. | Yogi Berra | [
"funny"
] |
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em. | Yogi Berra | [
"money",
"power"
] |