Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Very dangerous things, theories.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity and indeed the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man but if you tell people so they stare at you in bewilderment.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough they generally run away.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.