FastSaying

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.


Alexander McQueen

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne W...
KATIE MCGRATH Don’t try to fit in; try to change.
DEBASISH MRIDHA In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it'...
SHIRLEY MANSON I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. ...
ARIANA GRANDE But you don't have to fit in to be okay. Believe me! I am the not-fitting-in world expert. I have ANNE NESBET I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want ...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.
DAVID SUCHET I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
FRED ALLEN I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and ...
RUDY GIULIANI Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don...
JOYCE DIDONATO I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fi...
FELIX FRANKFURTER I'm not a security-type person, I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into ...
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform e...
WAYLON JENNINGS I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking a...
ZACK GREINKE You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certi...
JAN BREWER I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.
AL JOURGENSEN I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get dr...
SAMMY HAGAR I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don&#...
DENNIS CROWLEY Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I th...
ANDREA ARNOLD I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don&...
ZACK GREINKE From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far betw...
NAYA RIVERA I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise....
MAMIE GUMMER I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I...
BILLY CONNOLLY I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I...
HIROMI UEHARA I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are g...
MARIO LEMIEUX I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transpa...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN I'm in a very unique position in that I got to participate in the Food Network by contest. That&...
GUY FIERI I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song,...
DAVID NAIL I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs peopl...
LISA MURKOWSKI When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali...
GABRIEL BYRNE I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be...
EDITH HEAD I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon'...
AARON RUELL I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say...
FRED COUPLES I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so ...
ZUBIN MEHTA And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Sp...
CALISTA FLOCKHART I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that k...
DONALD O'CONNOR The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really ...
AWKWAFINA I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film the...
CAROL BURNETT I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to...
JEAN-LUC GODARD He believed in me a long time ago. I had five good years with Ken Hitchcock in Dallas. And the terms...
DERIAN HATCHER I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school o...
MEEK MILL No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don&#...
NICK CAVE Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anyth...
MIKE MCCARTHY I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
BILLY BOB THORNTON I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a n...
ADAM RAPP I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I vie...
JENNIFER MORRISON I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I&#...
KELLY BROOK Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that r...
DAVID ARQUETTE I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they ...
KATE UPTON I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But...
CILLA BLACK Anybody that pays attention to hate really is wasting their time. I don't subscribe. I don't...
GUY FIERI I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl str...
ZOE KRAVITZ I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.
GUY PEARCE I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't ...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way....
CHRIS PINE For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public,...
FLUME I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a...
CHARLIE TROTTER I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my...
VANCE JOY I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes...
ARUNDHATI ROY Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with someb...
JOHN DARNIELLE I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that wa...
EVA MENDES I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I ...
JOHN MALKOVICH Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn'...
PHILIP TREACY I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that a...
QUESTLOVE We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, '...
HANK AZARIA I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I...
ANOUSKA HEMPEL Each person in the group said something except for me. My silence became noticed. About halfway thro...
DAPHNE SCHOLINSKI I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the othe...
GILLIAN FLYNN I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi...
KARL MARLANTES Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and ...
RANDY FALCO A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in min...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the s...
JOSE MOURINHO There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. ...
BILLY IDOL I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't w...
JOCK STURGES I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all th...
ANTHONY HOPKINS I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contempo...
SONAM KAPOOR I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
EDWARD NORTON It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most ot...
PATRICK MACNEE I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
RUBEN STUDDARD You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. ...
DIANE LADD I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
JOHN MAYER To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don&#...
KARINE VANASSE I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm ...
NIECY NASH I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall...
LAURA TROTT I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.
, QUOTED IN ASIAWEEK MAGAZINE Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
, IN _A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY_ There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they d...
ALIA BHATT My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to sha...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ...
ADELE I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do wa...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM

More Alexander McQueen

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'm not interested in being liked.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really bel...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN The pink sheep of the family
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fash...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I've had good times; I've had bad times.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There is no better designer than nature.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Fame should be left to the film stars.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can get insular with fashion.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intell...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'Nat...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the pro...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
STEVE MCQUEEN I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
STEVE MCQUEEN We can't do it every year because we don't want to overlap with other fire departments in Niagara Fa...
STEVE MCQUEEN I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
STEVE MCQUEEN I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
STEVE MCQUEEN I was trained to be a deadly killer. I was probably one of the Marine Corps best killers. But, I dec...
ERNEST MCQUEEN We started a couple of weeks ago, but it will take a few months to put it all together. It's just pe...
STEVE MCQUEEN Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. Y...
BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN You see those on people at places like Vail, where they work while they?re skiing.
BRIAN MCQUEEN They?re way more user friendly.
BRIAN MCQUEEN Andy was a great skier. His accident woke a lot of us up. If it could happen to Andy it could happen...
BRIAN MCQUEEN I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are cer...
STEVE MCQUEEN I've punished myself more than anyone could possibly punish me. It's more important the judgement I ...
ERNEST MCQUEEN I just didn't want to kill nobody.
ERNEST MCQUEEN I was gung-ho when I went in.
ERNEST MCQUEEN I guess I'll have to take whatever comes my way.
ERNEST MCQUEEN I'm glad to get this behind me. What are they going to do with a 55-year-old man that's baldheaded, ...
ERNEST MCQUEEN I just decided I didn't want to be a part of killing anybody. That's about as plain as I can say it.
ERNEST MCQUEEN I was just so grossed out. George and Meredith have a brother-sister relationship. He knows how she ...
KARYN MCQUEEN I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it del...
STEVEN RODNEY MCQUEEN I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and an...
STEVEN R. MCQUEEN I've been watching 'Dexter' recently; I love that show. It's my favorite.
STEVEN R. MCQUEEN I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've g...
STEVEN R. MCQUEEN Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
ALEXANDER LOWEN The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
LAMAR ALEXANDER The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
LAMAR ALEXANDER When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and th...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've buil...
LAMAR ALEXANDER Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
LAMAR ALEXANDER Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard Univers...
LAMAR ALEXANDER September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s...
LAMAR ALEXANDER As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off...
ALEXANDER SMITH Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w...
EBEN ALEXANDER I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
EBEN ALEXANDER There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio...
EBEN ALEXANDER Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE