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“Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 5, p. 71
“The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) British poet and banker
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.”
Françoise Sagan book A Certain Smile
Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)
“How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835) German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin
As quoted in International Proverbs (2000) by Luzano Pancho Canlas, p. 40
Thomas Flanagan (political scientist) (1944) author, academic, and political activist
Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 5, How Many Are Too Many? Size of Coalitions, p. 88.
“Relatively unsuccessful firms would be more likely to innovate than relatively successful firms.”
Richard Cyert (1921–1998) American economist
Source: A behavioral theory of the firm, 1959, p. 188
“If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.”
Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) American physicist
As quoted in "Wilson vs Watson: The blessing of great enemies" by Amanda Gefter in New Scientist (10 September 2009) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17771-wilson-vs-watson-the-blessing-of-great-enemies.html; this is a play upon the famous statement by Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), Ch. 5
“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 24e
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
“Everyone makes and has need of making a world other than the one he sees.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?”
Samuel R. Delany book Babel-17
Part 2, Chapter 4
Babel-17 (1966)
“Them [gas] prices are higher than a bus load of Mexicans at the Los Lobos concert.”
Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist
Morning Constitutions (2007)
“Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.”
José Saramago book All the Names
The Registrar
All the Names (1997)
“I'm gonna slide into those DMs harder than Chase Utley slides into second.”
Alice Moran (1988) Canadian actress
As quoted on Twitter (10 August 2018) https://twitter.com/Alice_Moran/status/1027933019636736000
Muhammad Asad book The Principles of State and Government in Islam
Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 3: Government By Consent And Consent, p 50
Robertson Davies book The Cunning Man
Part 4, section 1.
The Cunning Man (1994)
“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
La vie est hérissée de ces épines, et je n'y sais d'autre remède que de cultiver son jardin.
Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain (21 October 1769), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance [Garnier frères, Paris, 1882], vol. XIV, letter # 7692 (p. 478)
Citas
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 57