“I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 140 of 303
“The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.”
“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
“Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.”
“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
“I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.”
“The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.”
“It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.”
“Read less, study less, but think more”
“The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.”
“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”
“Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.”
“One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.”
“Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.”
“The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.”
“Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.”
“The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.”
“A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.”
“It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.”
“To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.”