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"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" »Ernest Gaines
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"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." »Dudley Moore
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"The most popular labor-saving device is still money." »Phyllis George
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"The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness." »Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.
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"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money." »Franklin P Jones
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The space shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills." »Dana Rohrabacher
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"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." »H.L. Mencken
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"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"Some think it's holding on that makes one strong sometimes it's letting go." »Sylvia Robinson
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height." »Buddha
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"I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge." »Edward Chilton
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." »George S. Patton
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"You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them" »Amy Tan
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"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back." »Publilius Syrus
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"The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go." »Havelock Ellis
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"The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand." »Fred Allen
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"If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive." »Dorothee Solle
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"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." »Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
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"I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding." »Jacques LeBlanc
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"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force." »David Borenstein
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"holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." »Buddha
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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." »Josh Billings
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"holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned." »Buddha
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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