This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

I do things on a whim.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.