“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”
Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Volume 100 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=xPsvAQAAIAAJ, p. 757
“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”
Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Volume 100 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=xPsvAQAAIAAJ, p. 757
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 140
"Bye Bye Blackbird, Hello Mortal Sin", The Dog It Was that Died (1965)
The first half of the quote is Ecclesiastes, 12:3
“When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length.”
Remark at the 'photo-exhibition Cy Twombly', museum Marseille, Amsterdam, Autumn 2008
2000 - 2011
1962, Second Letter to Nikita Khrushchev
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.2 The Social Aims of Jesus, p. 49-50
Achtung-Panzer! : The Development of Armoured Forces, Their Tactics and Operational Potential (1937)
God can turn my failures into triumphs: this is the mystery of the Cross.
The Breaking Process http://www.getcited.org/pub/103428837, London: SCM Press Ltd., 1981, p. 99. ISBN 0334001390
Preface (dated 27 December 1791) to the first Cheng-Gao edition of Dream of the Red Chamber, as translated by John Minford in The Story of the Stone: The Debt of Tears (Penguin, 1979), Appendix I, p. 386
Speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg (2 September 2002), quoted in John Battersby and Andrew Grice, "Anti-West anger at summit as Mugabe rounds on Blair", The Independent, 3 September 2002, p. 1.
2000s, 2000-2004
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 492.
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
“Make haste; delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.”
Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre paratis.
Book I, line 281 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Inzwischen verlangt die Billigkeit, daß man die Universitätsphilosophie nicht bloß, wie hier gescheht!, aus dem Standpunkte des angeblichen, sondern auch aus dem des wahren und eigentlichen Zweckes derselben beurtheile. Dieser nämlich läuft darauf hinaus, daß die künftigen Referendarien, Advokaten, Aerzte, Kandidaten und Schulmänner auch im Innersten ihrer Ueberzeugungen diejenige Richtung erhalten, welche den Absichten, die der Staat und seine Regierung mit ihnen haben, angemessen ist. Dagegen habe ich nichts einzuwenden, bescheide mich also in dieser Hinsicht. Denn über die Nothwendigkeit, oder Entbehrlichkeit eines solchen Staatsmittels zu urtheilen, halte ich mich nicht für kompetent; sondern stelle es denen anheim, welche die schwere Aufgabe haben, Menschen zu regieren, d. h. unter vielen Millionen eines, der großen Mehrzahl nach, gränzenlos egoistischen, ungerechten, unbilligen, unredlichen, neidischen, boshaften und dabei sehr beschränkten und querköpfigen Geschlechtes, Gesetz, Ordnung, Ruhe und Friede aufrecht zu erhalten und die Wenigen, denen irgend ein Besitz zu Theil geworden, zu schützen gegen die Unzahl Derer, welche nichts, als ihre Körperkräfte haben. Die Aufgabe ist so schwer, daß ich mich wahrlich nicht vermesse, über die dabei anzuwendenden Mittel mit ihnen zu rechten. Denn „ich danke Gott an jedem Morgen, daß ich nicht brauch’ für’s Röm’sche Reich zu sorgen,”—ist stets mein Wahlspruch gewesen. Diese Staatszwecke der Universitätsphilosophie waren es aber, welche der Hegelei eine so beispiellose Ministergunft verschafften. Denn ihr war der Staat „der absolut vollendete ethische Organismus,” und sie ließ den ganzen Zweck des menschlichen Daseyns im Staat aufgehn. Konnte es eine bessere Zurichtung für künftige Referendarien und demnächst Staatsbeamte geben, als diese, in Folge welcher ihr ganzes Wesen und Seyn, mit Leib und Seele, völlig dem Staat verfiel, wie das der Biene dem Bienenstock, und sie auf nichts Anderes, weder in dieser, noch in einer andern Welt hinzuarbeiten hatten, als daß sie taugliche Räder würden, mitzuwirken, um die große Staatsmaschine, diesen ultimus finis bonorum, im Gange zu erhalten? Der Referendar und der Mensch war danach Eins und das Selbe. Es war eine rechte Apotheose der Philisterei.
Sämtliche Werke, Bd. 5, p. 159, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, pp. 146-147
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Philosophy in the Universities
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)
Knight: My Story http://www.campofchamps.com/book_of_the_month_knight.htm, Chapter: Cornerstone and Credos. By Bobby Knight and Bob Hammel, 2002. Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (March 26, 2002) ISBN: 978-0312282578.
Falsehood in Wartime (1928), Introduction
Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution (2009)
Interview with Colin Meloy, 2004-06 http://www.believermag.com/issues/200406/?read=interview_meloy,
1920s, Whose Country Is This? (1921)
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
As quoted in Sophia's Fire (2005) by Sango Mbella, p. 133.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 253.
There was no satisfactory answer.
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Letter to John Bright (1 October 1851), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), p. 561.
1850s
Reddit AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/57bkxj/i_am_stefan_karl_robbie_rotten_from_lazytown_and/ (13 October 2016)
On Sanskrit, as quoted in the transcript of a speech, titled "Sanskrit as a Language of Science" http://www.iisc.ernet.in/misc/bang_speech.html and delivered on 13 October 2009, published by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Source: Marxism, Fascism & Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism, (2008), p. 55
The Mexican-American and the Church (1968)
On regularly being asked to re-make Death Wish http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5315068.stm.
From Amritanandamayi's Speech Against Human Trafficking and Slavery at the Vatican (2014)
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 111
Speech at his inauguration as Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh (6 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 89-90.
1925
“There is no thinking except as aftermath or preparation of communication.”
Source: The Sociology of Philosophies (1998), p. 2
"Clapton: The Autobiography"
1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My Painting', p. 73
“Adoration in prayer purges our spirit and prepares us to listen to God.”
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
At the 130th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Naval Institute and Annapolis Naval History Symposium on 31 March 2004. http://www.usni.org/seminars/annualmeeting/04/annualmeeting04Lehman.htm, http://www.johnflehman.com/pdf/proceedings_MAR2004.pdf (PFD)
"Early Encounters" (p. 20)
Quoted by Vollard who came to invite Degas for dinner, that evening
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)
On Protracted Warfare (1938)
March 27, 1968, page 208.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
"Matthew Broderick on John Hughes, the Never-Finished Margaret, and His New Film Wonderful World" by Kyle Buchanan, in Movieline (7 January 2010) http://www.matthewbroderick.net/interview/movieline100107.html
"I spend my days preparing for life, not for death" The Guardian, Laura Smith (2007-10-25)
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 98.
1920s, Ways to Peace (1926)
No. 365.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)
Source: The New Left: The Resurgence of Radicalism Among American Students (1966), p. 3
Regarding the admission of Orleans Territory as a U.S. State. Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. iv. p. 327. This was later famously paraphrased by Henry Clay: The gentleman [Mr. Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." Speech, Jan. 8, 1813.
This is what the black revolution means.
Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 136
A Dangerous Place, Little Brown, p. 247 (1980)
Of Eyes Wide Shut
Interview, http://www.tipjar.com/dan/raphael.htm
Letter to George Washington (August 1778)
The Harlot Babylon
End Times with Mike Bickle
God TV
http://www.god.tv/node/2875
2011-08-06, quoted in * Brian
Tashman
Rick Perry Partners With Pastor Who Thinks Oprah Is The Precursor To The Antichrist
Right Wing Watch
2011-07-08
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-partners-pastor-who-thinks-oprah-precursor-antichrist
2011-08-06
1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)
Speech before the Colonization Society https://books.google.com/books?id=AoS2cqFQCSoC&pg=PA50
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1962/nov/08/britain-and-the-common-market in the House of Lords on the British application to join the Common Market (8 November 1962).
1960s
1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)
Cambridge History of Iran, p. 421
quote, c. 1920; in Buchheim, Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke, p. 303; as cited in 'The Revival of Printmaking in Germany', I. K. Rigby; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, pp. 40-41
Quote of Camille Pissarro, Eragny, 15 May 1888, in a letter to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, pp. 125-126
1880's
Powerful Moments From Chris Murphy’s Senate Filibuster on Gun Legislation" https://sojo.net/articles/5-powerful-moments-chris-murphy-s-senate-filibuster-gun-violence/"5, Sojourners, 15 June 2016.
The Betrayal by Technology (1993 film)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 34.
Letter to George Washington (24 April 1779)
Source: The Uncertain Trumpet (1960), p. 179-180
History of Heroic Hindu Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders (1984; 2001)
Quoted in "World Peace and the Developing Countries" - Page 126 - by Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio - 1986
"To Jesus Christ", as cited in Roush, Sherry, 2011, Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella, University of Chicago Press, p. 18.
But this reliance on Massive Retaliation overlooked the fact that atomic bangs could eventually be bought for rubles as well as dollars.
Source: The Uncertain Trumpet (1960), p. 12-13
Interview with Larry Smith, basis for Bigg's character on the show Orange Is the New Black, interview excerpted in: — [December 4, 2014, http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/07/16/larry-smith-jason-biggs-orange-is-the-new-black/, Jason Biggs talks 'Orange is the New Black' with real-life Larry, Ariana Bacle, July 16, 2014, Entertainment Weekly]
Speech to the Socialist League in Nottingham (6 July 1935), quoted in The Times (8 July 1935), p. 21.
Re: O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/a10d0e7d8e7354b2 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
Hard Nose the Highway
Song lyrics, Hard Nose the Highway (1973)
“Before entering any occupation, diligent preparation is to be undertaken.”
In omnibus autem negotiis priusquam adgrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens.
Book I, section 73
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Speech after the meeting of the Visegrád Four http://www.miniszterelnok.hu/prime-minister-viktor-orbans-speech-after-the-meeting-of-the-visegrad-four/, 28 March 2017, Warsaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aipyRne6dso
Interview in Mexico, 1995