Quotes of Title - somelinesforyou

“ They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.". ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ”

- Charles Kuralt

“ Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. ”

- Jim Backus

“ The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts. ”

- Ernest A. Fitzgerald

“ And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms. - As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope. ”

- Tom Harkin

“ Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ A good title is the title of a successful book. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No — no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice. ”

- Robert Emmet

“ I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be — and is required to be — a right that is unencumbered… ”

- Clay Aiken

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ Given the last 22 months, given today's circumstances of crumbling sanctions, given the fact that he is back in the arms business, Mister Chairman, it follows as the night follows the day for me to say what I am saying: These sanctions are not working. ”

- Richard Butler

“ I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ”

- George Washington

“ When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. ”

- George Washington

“ A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness. ”

- Robert Cecil

“ I don't like giving names to generations; It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. ”

- Ian Williams

“ I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. ”

- William Wycherley

“ If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once.". ”

- Sidney J. Harris

“ It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it. ”

- Andre Agassi

“ Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis. ”

- The EMS Manager Newsletter
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