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"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident." »Vincent Canby
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"Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." »Richard Bach
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"Short sentences drawn from long experiences." »Cervantes
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"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." »Richard Bach
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"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it." »Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." »Fred Allen
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"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted." »Fred Allen
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"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." »George Carlin
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"When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there." »Harold Monro
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"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin." »Hermann Hesse
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"He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"A benefit given to the good is like characters engraven on a stone; a benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn on water." »Buddhist
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"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941
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"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Winston Churchill
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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed." »David K. Shipler
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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed." »Blaise Pascal
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"Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man." »Charles Boyle
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"Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart." »Mahabharata
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"It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend." »Endicott Peabody
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"Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend." »Endicott Peabody
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"The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed." »Plato
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"No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today." »Richard Nixon
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