Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgie...
ASHLEY BENSON We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
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DEYTH BANGER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
ANNE ROBINSON Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong...
BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ...
BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne W...
KATIE MCGRATH I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER More than half of our business is contemporary now. Historically, they used to be about 5 percent, b...
AUSTIN CRALEY Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and N...
AIMEE MULLINS When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA I usually have trouble sticking my back walkover, back walkover together. But I stuck it this time. ...
BIANCA LOFFREDO God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but k...
PABLO PICASSO I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts ...
ALAN MOORE Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exagge...
SUSAN SONTAG One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely importa...
GEORGE CRUMB Hope is not undeniable; but it's always there. Hope is not invincible; but it keeps coming back.
RENé FRIEDRICH I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough ar...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the...
SUSAN SONTAG The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn’t know is there was any light t...
JOELLE CHARBONNEAU Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the firs...
CHELSEA HANDLER We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
ALLY CONDIE Sometimes I wonder how many others you're texting while you're texting me.
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. CAST NOTHING TO DO BUT ALWAYS BUSY
RIGAS .... I was telling you... but you don't listen to me....
DEYTH BANGER There’s nothing worse than not being wanted
JENNIFER PROBST What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was t...
MITCH ALBOM It was the beginning of youth culture and pandering to youth culture, ... In that, the comic book pu...
MICHAEL CHABON I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in th...
VICTORIA BECKHAM He looks more relaxed this year than in the past. He's a complete player. His aggressive style reall...
HUGH MITCHELL Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL 'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love o...
SUSAN SONTAG I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the m...
CRAIG ANGELOS In other news, Aang dominates on “Are You Smarter Than the Fire Nation”. Bella Swan becomes enga...
JACQUEL CHRISSY MAY So many people never find the one, because they are too lazy to work hard on something that is meant...
PHILIP T. M. 'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of a...
JAMES WAN Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one a...
JOHN TRUDELL opened its doors to residents of the Alexander Youth Center and others with special needs.
BARBARA WEBB When you have a beanpole body, everything looks cute. Like Alexa Chung. I like her style, but she...
KIRSTEN DUNST I don't know that's it's maybe as well known now as it was in past years, but it really has passed i...
DAVID JENKINS That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
TONY LA RUSSA Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll alw...
TONY LA RUSSA Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn...
EILEEN MYLES Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
KURTIS BLOW If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of t...
TOM ROBBINS People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not...
ANNA WINTOUR Good looks can attract you to a person,but character keeps you in the relationship.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) So many people never find the one, because they are too lazy to work hard on something that was mean...
PHILIP T. M. There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Getting the first one and doing it fast relieved a little pressure. I was really nervous to get past...
JOSH MILEY Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could f...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever a...
BRITTANY SNOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The thing about Denver is that it seemed to me that most of the residential has been built in that L...
GARY SWITZER Unfortunately, those companies grew up, and part of that entrepreneurial culture was lost for some p...
JAY KATARINCIC In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's g...
FREDDIE FREEMAN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not fo...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
ORLANDO BLOOM Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this...
JUN MOCHIZUKI That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
DEYTH BANGER There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't...
TATSUHIKO TAKIMOTO The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an un...
CUTHBERT SOUP Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of g...
ALYSON NOEL You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...
So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER ...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Every choice has a consequence, every consequence another choice. Little agonies waiting to be embra...
MCM Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Ay me! sad hours seem long.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whate...
JOAN BAUER When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporar...
TOM PERROTTA I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG She is now in control, without necessarily sticking to the same hands-on style as her father. I thin...
BENGT CARLSSON The way it's looking right now, our engine might be one percent below our specifications, but still ...
ELON MUSK Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the la...
NOEL IGNATIEV I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been ...
DARYL HANNAH Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to ...
LEOPOLD VON RANKE It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,...
JULIAN BAGGINI I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I unde...
BENJAMIN BRATT Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI It was really one man with one vision -- BJ -- and not many people believed him, but now we have don...
DIETER KIRSCH It was really one man with one vision - B.J. - and not many people believed him, but now we have don...
DIETER KIRSCH It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I think when they got out to an early lead it was tough for us to get back on track, but we did. We ...
DREW STAFFORD
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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 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 came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to f...
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