Ronald Frame quote: "For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel."

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation...
RONALD FRAME

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching ...
RONALD FRAME

I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely r...
RONALD FRAME

Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed ...
RONALD FRAME

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you s...
RONALD FRAME

Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.
RONALD FRAME

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it...
JANET FRAME

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruct...
JANET FRAME

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the l...
JANET FRAME

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.
JANET FRAME

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own dest...
JANET FRAME

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Pur...
JOHN FRAME

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destru...
JANET FRAME

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d...
JANET FRAME

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
JANET FRAME

''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own dest...
JANET FRAME

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .
JANET FRAME

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the fo...
JANET FRAME

Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up ...
JANET FRAME

What, in all the world, could I do to earn my living and still live as myself, as I knew myse...
JANET FRAME

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the...
JANET FRAME

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conserva...
JOHN FRAME

They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing—oh the days were hot, and the n...
JANET FRAME

I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole whic...
JANET FRAME

We want to lease out the building. We found a tenant interested in leasing the building, but we woul...
PHIL FRAME

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring indepen...
JOHN FRAME

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
JANET FRAME

We're always looking for the best candidate. There's not very many people out there like her, to be ...
DOUG FRAME

I think it is really neat because it shows that kids really do want to be involved and that they nee...
DOUG FRAME

There is no sport that we have where the team practices any harder than track. They are out there th...
DOUG FRAME

We wanted to honor (the records) because Winslow has done a great job running it in the past.
DOUG FRAME

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the bean...
JANET FRAME

I will put warm woolen socks on the feet of the people in the other world; but I dream and cannot wa...
JANET FRAME

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
JANET FRAME

I like to see life with its teeth out.
JANET FRAME

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d...
JANET FRAME

The problem was, Katrina was on television 24 hours a day. It was in every paper. The homeless probl...
PHIL FRAME

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
RONALD

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting ...
RONALD REAGAN

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up ...
RONALD REAGAN

Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free...
RONALD REAGAN

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a ...
RONALD REAGAN

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of...
RONALD REAGAN

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy'...
RONALD REAGAN

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mig...
RONALD REAGAN

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
RONALD REAGAN

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a wor...
RONALD REAGAN

People do not make wars; governments do.
RONALD REAGAN

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ...
RONALD REAGAN

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ...
RONALD REAGAN

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very ...
RONALD REAGAN

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
RONALD REAGAN

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.
RONALD REAGAN

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
RONALD REAGAN

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
RONALD REAGAN

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
RONALD REAGAN

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
RONALD REAGAN

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...
RONALD REAGAN

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
RONALD REAGAN

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
RONALD REAGAN

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economi...
RONALD REAGAN

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
RONALD REAGAN

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take ...
RONALD REAGAN

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
RONALD REAGAN

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
RONALD REAGAN

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the governm...
RONALD REAGAN

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them thro...
RONALD REAGAN

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutel...
RONALD REAGAN

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
RONALD REAGAN

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
RONALD REAGAN

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
RONALD REAGAN

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall wil...
RONALD REAGAN

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free t...
RONALD REAGAN

Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other s...
RONALD REAGAN

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
RONALD REAGAN

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has...
RONALD REAGAN

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party...
RONALD REAGAN

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
RONALD REAGAN

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
RONALD REAGAN

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Dem...
RONALD REAGAN

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we ...
RONALD REAGAN

How can a president not be an actor?
RONALD REAGAN

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
RONALD REAGAN

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
RONALD REAGAN

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
RONALD REAGAN

Don't be afraid to see what you see.
RONALD REAGAN

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
RONALD REAGAN

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
RONALD REAGAN

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works....
RONALD REAGAN

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth...
RONALD REAGAN

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the sy...
RONALD REAGAN

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know ...
RONALD REAGAN

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
RONALD REAGAN

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
RONALD REAGAN

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
RONALD REAGAN

Facts are stubborn things.
RONALD REAGAN

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
RONALD REAGAN

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there...
RONALD REAGAN

Man is not free unless government is limited.
RONALD REAGAN

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever dev...
RONALD REAGAN

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
RONALD REAGAN

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
RONALD REAGAN

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be f...
RONALD REAGAN

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
RONALD REAGAN

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
RONALD REAGAN

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
RONALD REAGAN

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as ...
RONALD REAGAN

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an...
RONALD REAGAN

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
RONALD REAGAN

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
RONALD REAGAN

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn thei...
RONALD REAGAN

Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia...
RONALD KESSLER

When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I...
RONALD KESSLER

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affec...
RONALD STEEL

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that...
RONALD REAGAN

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know...
RONALD REAGAN

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all ...
RONALD BIGGS

Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
RONALD REAGAN

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I...
RONALD REAGAN

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how impo...
RONALD KESSLER

So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride...
RONALD REAGAN

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep t...
RONALD REAGAN

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.I've o...
RONALD REAGAN

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
RONALD REAGAN

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
RONALD REAGAN

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, y...
RONALD REAGAN

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the peo...
RONALD REAGAN

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't availabl...
RONALD REAGAN

Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is t...
RONALD REAGAN

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthri...
RONALD REAGAN

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.
RONALD REAGAN

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
RONALD REAGAN

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must...
RONALD REAGAN

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
RONALD REAGAN

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've ...
RONALD REAGAN

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
RONALD REAGAN

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
RONALD KNOX

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
RONALD REAGAN

Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.
RONALD REAGAN

Atheism is easy in fair weather.
RONALD DUNN

The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of it...
RONALD SEGAL

The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunit...
RONALD COHEN

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected I believe to One does feel.
RONALD KNOX

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
RONALD REAGAN

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the G...
RONALD REAGAN

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...
RONALD REAGAN

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
RONALD REAGAN

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
RONALD REAGAN

We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which shar...
RONALD REAGAN

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
RONALD REAGAN

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
RONALD REAGAN

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
RONALD REAGAN

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
RONALD REAGAN

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and ho...
RONALD MCNAIR

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and f...
RONALD SEGAL

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed i...
RONALD REAGAN

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conc...
RONALD REAGAN

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. N...
RONALD REAGAN

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.
RONALD DUNN

Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not...
RONALD REAGAN

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wa...
RONALD REAGAN

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
RONALD KNOX

More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he anno...
RONALD REAGAN

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
RONALD REAGAN

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
RONALD KNOX

Honey, I forgot to duck.
RONALD REAGAN

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the ...
RONALD REAGAN

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a...
RONALD REAGAN

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely in...
RONALD REAGAN

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker...
RONALD REAGAN

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
RONALD REAGAN

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...
RONALD REAGAN

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
RONALD REAGAN

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you ...
RONALD REAGAN

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
RONALD REAGAN

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself ...
RONALD REAGAN

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ve...
RONALD REAGAN

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...
RONALD REAGAN

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be...
RONALD REAGAN

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit ov...
RONALD REAGAN

Limits exist only in the mind
RONALD REAGAN

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...
RONALD REAGAN

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
RONALD REAGAN

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
RONALD REAGAN

Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines do...
RONALD REAGAN

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ver...
RONALD REAGAN

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with...
RONALD REAGAN

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civ...
RONALD REAGAN

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
RONALD WRIGHT

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
RONALD KNOX

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.
RONALD REAGAN

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.
RONALD REAGAN

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
RONALD REAGAN

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
RONALD REAGAN

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbre...
RONALD REAGAN

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
RONALD REAGAN

Trust, but verify.
RONALD REAGAN

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
RONALD REAGAN

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

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For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

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