...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

-- W. Edwards Deming, Unknown , Unknown

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt . . . If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

-- Thomas Jefferson, etter sent after enactment of the Sedition Act, 1798

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

-- Sir Thomas George Barnett Cocks, Unknown , born 1907

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , born July 12, 1908

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

-- Fred Allen., Unknown , Unknown

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anyone to serve on a committee.

-- Fletcher Knebel, Unknown , Unknown

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

A good leader cannot get too far ahead of his followers.

-- Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

A government that remembers that the people are its master is a good and needed thing.

-- George H. W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

-- Nelson Mandela, Unknown , Unknown

A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

-- Jackie Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

-- James Monroe, Unknown , Unknown

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

-- Morimer Zuckerman, USNews & World Report, 1998, January 12

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

-- John W. Gardner, Unknown , Unknown

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

-- Walter Lippmann, Unknown , Unknown

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

-- Alexander Cannon, Unknown , Unknown

A teacher's day is one-half bureaucracy, one-half crisis, one-half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.

-- Susan Ohanian, Unknown , Unknown

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

A university, if it is any good, is open-ended: the person of the most humble beginnings may rise to the highest office. To be sure, he is most likely to do so if he takes on something of the coloration of the university….He must judge delicately how much of that coloration is natural to him, or he will be thought a parvenu, a climber, merely ambitious rather than incidentally ambitious.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A vision without action is but a dream; action without vision is a waste of time; but vision with action can change our lives.

-- M. Ignacio Tinajero, 1995 Texas Teacher of the Year, Unknown , Unknown

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

-- James Buchanan, Unknown , Unknown

Actions speak louder than words.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Always be diplomatic before inserting a knife in your enemy's back.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

-- Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan Attorney, Unknown , Unknown

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems-- the answer for all the problems of the world--comes to a single word. That word is "education."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Bad spellers of the world, Untie!

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

-- Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time, Unknown

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

Be the change you want to see in the world.

-- Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Being in Congress doesn't make you a leader any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

-- Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory, 1984

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

-- Margaret Thatcher, Unknown , Unknown

Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.

-- Desmond Morris, Unknown , Unknown

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

-- Laurence J. Peter, Unknown , Unknown

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

-- Charles Peters, Unknown , Unknown

But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

-- Euripedes, Unknown , Unknown

Causes of violence: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principles.

-- Mahatma Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

-- James Baldwin, Unknown , Unknown

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on Society.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , Unknown

Curb an excessively independent attitude.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Deans can count but they can't read.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.

-- Robert Heinlein, "This I believe" National Public Radio series, c1951

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

-- Gordon Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Deliberation is the work of many men; action, of one alone.

-- Charles de Gaulle, Unknown , Unknown

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , born May 29, 1874

Departmental conflicts, which were many, it turned out, were spoken of only by allusion and only in low voices.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 57, 1995

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-- Bob Rivera & Peter Yates, janitors, Kingswood Regional High., Unknown , 1991

Do not judge others, and God will not judge you...The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.

-- Luke 6:37-38, Unknown , Unknown

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

-- email humor, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be stupid. We have world leaders for that.

-- bumper sticker, Unknown , Unknown

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

-- Howard Aiken., Unknown , Unknown

Due to circumstances beyond my control I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant, Unknown , Unknown

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

-- Gene Perrett, Unknown , Unknown

Education can't make us all leaders-- but it can teach us which leader to follow.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.

-- Ropo Oguntimehin, Unknown , Unknown

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the primary tool of emancipation and liberation for African-Americans in our fight for true equality in this country.

-- Earl G. Graves, Unknown , Unknown

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

-- Lord Brougham, Unknown , Unknown

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

-- Barbara Jordan, 1991, Unknown

Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.

-- J. Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Elites feel able to rise above their own rules, since they create them: no one can attend faculty meetings for long without discovering that rules are normative, not binding.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

-- Neil Postman, The End of Education, Unknown

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Every decision you make is a mistake.

-- Edward Dahlberg, Unknown , Unknown

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

-- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, Aphorism, 1905

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

-- George Will, Unknown , Unknown

For colored people to acquire learning in this country makes tyrants quake and tremble on their sandy foundation.

-- David Walker, Unknown , Unknown

For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

For you to be successful sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

-- A.J.P. Taylor, Unknown , Unknown

Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

-- Paul Robeson, As reported by Harry Belefonte in World Citizenship Award Acceptance Speech, 2003

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him for the whole weekend.

-- Zenna Schaffer, Unknown , Unknown

God is in the details.

-- Mies Van Der Rohe, Unknown , Unknown

Government is not a reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

-- George Washington, Unknown , Unknown

Grief is the price of victory.

-- Frank Herbert, Unknown , Unknown

He didn't give a darn who chaired the meeting as long as he took the minutes….with reference to Stalin.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

-- Morimer Zuckerman., USNews & World Report, 1998, January 12

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

-- Samuel Tuke, Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3., ---- -1673

He sought advice readily, always a good quality in an administrator, and did his own Xeroxing.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 62, 1995

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , born November 30, 1874

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

-- Ralph Bunch, Unknown , 1904-1971

Hell is other people.

-- Jean-Paul Sartre, Unknown , Unknown

Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

-- Isabel Allende, Unknown , 1942

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

How Important Are You? More than you think. A rooster minus a hen equals no baby chicks. Kellogg minus a farmer equals no corn flakes. If the nail factory closes what good is the hammer factory? Paderewski’s genius wouldn’t have amounted to much if the piano tuner hadn’t shown up. A cracker maker will do better if there’s a cheesemaker. The most skillful surgeon needs the ambulance driver who delivers the patient. Just as Rodgers needed Hammerstein you need someone and someone needs you.

-- From Wall Street Journal, Unknown , Unknown

How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.

-- Luke 6:26, Unknown , Unknown

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

-- Anne Frank, Unknown , Unknown

Humility is the greatest expression of confidence.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, September 25, Unknown

I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.

-- Bill Cosby, Unknown , Unknown

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

-- William E. Henley, Unknown , Unknown

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a-learning of his alphabet.

-- Elizabeth I of England, on Philip II of Spain, Unknown , Unknown

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

-- Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

-- Barbara Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from the animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

-- Jeff Stilson, Unknown , Unknown

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

-- Whitfield Diffie., Unknown , Unknown

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

-- B. Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

-- Golda Meir, Unknown , Unknown

I must study politics and war that my sons will have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

-- Catherine the Great, attributed, 1729-1796

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them....That's all the powers of the president amount to.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

I think the world is run by C students.

-- Al McGuire, Unknown , Unknown

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

-- Bessie Delany, Unknown , Unknown

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

-- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents, Unknown , Unknown

I'm very brave generally only today I happen to have a headache.

-- character "Tweedledum" by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Unknown

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

-- Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

If a government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

-- Gerald Ford, Unknown , Unknown

If a man is vain, flatter. If timid, flatter. If boastful, flatter. In all history, too much flattery never lost a gentleman.

-- Kathryn Cravens, Unknown , Unknown

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unknown , Unknown

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

-- William Booth, Unknown , born 1829

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

-- Latin proverb, Unknown , Unknown

If we had had more time for discussing we probably would've made a great many more mistakes.

-- Leon Trotsky, Unknown , born November 7, 1879

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

-- Ellen Goodman, Unknown , Unknown

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

-- Hyman Rickover, Unknown , 1900-1986

If you cain't bear no crosses, You cain't wear no crown.

-- African-American spiritual, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

-- George Carlin, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

-- Truman's Law, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

-- Harry Vaughan. Misattributed to Harry Truman., Unknown , Unknown

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

-- Zora Neale Hurston, Unknown , Unknown

If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.

-- Kuan Chung, Unknown , Unknown

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.

-- Clinton Davidson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

Imagination is more powerful even than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

In America, Anyone Can Be President. That's One of the Risks You Take.

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

-- Margaret Thatcher, b. 1925, Unknown , 1970

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

-- Napolean Bonaparte, Unknown , Unknown

In reality, serendipity accounts for 1 percent of the blessings we receive in life, work, and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

-- Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, Unknown , Unknown

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have found that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

It is an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

-- John F. Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

-- Elizabeth Kenny, in Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, 1976

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

-- Dolores Ibarruri "La Pasionaria", speech, 1936.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It is good to kill an Admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

-- Voltaire, Unknown , Unknown

It is not who you attend school with, but who controls the school you attend.

-- Nikki Giovanni, Unknown , 1943-

It is up to us to change our community by holding ourselves accountable, and the politicians we elect accountable, to making a positive difference in all our communities...Get involved. Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror and ask yourself: What have I done today to make this country better?

-- Sam Sanchez, commentary aired on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. and quoted in Feb 15, 1995, The Washington Spectator, Unknown

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

-- John Andrew Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

It's easier to change the course of history than a history course.

-- Zell Miller, Senator, Unknown , Unknown

It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Ivar understood his position perfectly, and more than that, he accepted it as his office. The university had become a broad, bare field in the center of which he stood alone, while everyone else covered their heads and fled. His job was to stand there, smiling, pretending that everything was fine, while sniper fire from the press, the regents, the legislature, the governor's office, the faculty senate, and the parents of students ricocheted all around him. He had to keep smiling and use certain words, "concerned," "situation," "of course," over and over again. Other, truer words and phrases ran through his head. "Fall guy" was one.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 334-5., Unknown

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

-- Bill Clinton, Unknown , Unknown

Keep your plans secret for now.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is power--especially if you know about the right people.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is power.

-- Hobbs or Sir Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study Hard and Become Evil.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

-- John Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

Leadership is the ability to lead oneself so effectively that others are inclined to follow.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson, author of seminal Economics text and winner of Nobel Prize in economics., 20th century

Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

-- Dr. Joyce Brothers, Unknown , Unknown

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

-- Samuel Butler, Unknown , Unknown

Many have positions of authority. Few have authority.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, October 26, Unknown

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

-- Frantz Fanon, Unknown , Unknown

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, Unknown , Unknown

Mercy produces courage Frugality produces generosity Humility produces leadership.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Money can buy the most expensive dog in the world but only love can make him wag his tail.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Money talks. Usually it says, "Bend over."

-- Solomon Short, Unknown , Unknown

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

-- Mrs. H. O. Ward, Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home Culture, 1878

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician; and, to tell you the truth, there's hardly a difference.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called, form of government.

-- Susan B. Anthony, upon being convicted of voting without the right to do so by a judge who penned his decision before hearing the case, An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1872

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

-- John W. Campbell, Unknown , Unknown

Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you have the power to put them there.

-- Lyndon Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

Nice guys finish last.

-- Attributed by reporters to Leo Durocher who actually said "The nice guys are all over there. In seventh place.", Unknown , Unknown

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

-- Norman Cousins, on Richard Nixon, Unknown , Unknown

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

-- Jascha Heifetz., Unknown , Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story, 1937

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

-- Arthur Koestler, Unknown , Unknown

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

-- Edward Shepherd Mead, Unknown , Unknown

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

-- Lao Tzu, Unknown , Unknown

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.

-- Sir Walter Scott, Unknown , Unknown

On close scrutiny, the beast within us looks suspiciously like a sheep.

-- Sarah J. McCarthy, Unknown , Unknown

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit on our own rumps.

-- Montaigne, Unknown , Unknown

On the rhinoceros: "Here is an animal with a hide two feet thick and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste."

-- James C. Wright, Jr., Unknown , born December 22, 1922

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

-- Italian proverb, Unknown , Unknown

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

-- Robert F. Kennedy, Unknown , born November 20, 1925

One man with courage makes a majority.

-- Andrew Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

One man with courage makes a majority.

-- Andrew Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

One of the most important trips a person can make is that involved in meeting the other person halfway.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

One person is a human being; two people is politics.

-- George Velliotes, Unknown , born 1829

Only the educated are free.

-- Epictetus, Discourses, Unknown

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

-- Sun-tzu, Unknown , Unknown

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , born 1872

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

-- Boston-NY AIDS Ride., Unknown , c2000

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

-- Alvin Toffler, American futurist, Unknown , Unknown

Over the years, Mrs. Loraine Walker's vision of the campus had changed. The collection of stone buildings had evolved, in her mind, into a web of offices, where secretaries sat under bright lights and near them, much more dimly, sat administrators whose grasp on things was tenuous at best. ....The only people who talked on the phone anymore were the administrators, whose whole lives, like those of chimps, were made up of nit-picking, stroking, and jockeying for dominance. ...The stony walls and concrete paths, the closed windows and doors, the trees and shrubs, all the elements of the campus that seemed to separate people, had become permeable membranes undetectable in the wafting currents of information.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 137, 1995

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

-- Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

-- André Maurois, News summaries, 1950, January 30

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole, Unknown , Unknown

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader--occasionally in the right direction.

-- Alexander Chase, Unknown , Unknown

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking place.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

-- Paul Valery, Unknown , born October 30, 1871

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette: the more you woo her, the more apt she is to elude your embrace.

-- John Tyler, Unknown , Unknown

Power can be seen as power with rather than power over, and it can be used for competence and co-operation, rather than dominance and control.

-- Anne L. Barstow, Unknown , Unknown

President Lincoln was once taken to task for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them? You should destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln replied, "when I make them my friends?"

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Queen Victoria was like a great paperweight that for half a century sat upon men's minds and when she was removed their ideas began to blow all over the place haphazardly.

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Remember the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Remember to share good fortune as well as bad with your friends.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Remember, any jackass can kick over the barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

-- Tip O'Neil quoting Sam Rayburn, former Speaker of the House, Unknown , Unknown

Rules are the solutions to yesterday's problems.

-- Button, Unknown , Unknown

Say, O God, possessor of all sovereignty, you give sovereignty to whom you wish and take sovereignty from whom you wish.

-- The Koran, Chapter of the Family of Imran, Unknown , Unknown

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham J. Heschel, Unknown , Unknown

She had actually transferred funds out of the athletic budget into the library budget from time to time, possibly her most dangerous covert action.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 140., 1995

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

-- James Madison, Unknown , Unknown

Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

-- Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, Unknown , Unknown

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

-- West African Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

-- Scott Simon on the 1990 massacre of 8,000 over the course of 2 days that was watched by world governments via satellite and radio, commentary, National Public Radio Weekend Edition, June 16, 2005

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'l