William C. Bryant Quotes
American - Poet November 3, 1794 - 1878


Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
William C. Bryant

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
William C. Bryant

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
William C. Bryant

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
William C. Bryant

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
William C. Bryant

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
William C. Bryant

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
William C. Bryant

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
William C. Bryant

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William C. Bryant

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
William C. Bryant

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
William C. Bryant

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
William C. Bryant

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
William C. Bryant

The groves were God's first temples.
William C. Bryant

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
William C. Bryant

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
William C. Bryant

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William C. Bryant

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
William C. Bryant

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William C. Bryant

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
William C. Bryant

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
William C. Bryant

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
William C. Bryant

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.
William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.
William Cullen Bryant

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
William Cullen Bryant

Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open grounds of London. I doubt, in fact, whether any person fully comprehends their extent, from any of the ordinary descriptions of them, until he has seen them or tried to walk over them.
William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.
William Cullen Bryant

I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the continent of Europe, finds the contrast between a government of power and a government of opinion forced upon him at every step.
William Cullen Bryant


Andre Malraux Quotes
French - Author November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976

An art book is a museum without walls.
Andre Malraux

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
Andre Malraux

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Andre Malraux

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Andre Malraux

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
Andre Malraux

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
Andre Malraux

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Andre Malraux

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux


Walker Evans Quotes
American - Photographer November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker Evans

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans


James Reston Quotes
American - Journalist November 3, 1909 - December 6, 1995

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Reston

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
James Reston

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
James Reston

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
James Reston

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
James Reston

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
James Reston

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
James Reston

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
James Reston


Shirley Chisholm Quotes
American - Politician November 3, 1924 - January 1, 2005

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
Shirley Chisholm

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Shirley Chisholm

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
Shirley Chisholm

Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
Shirley Chisholm

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
Shirley Chisholm


John Barry Quotes
British - Composer Born: November 3, 1933

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.
John Barry

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.
John Barry

Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.
John Barry

I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him.
John Barry

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.
John Barry

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.
John Barry

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.
John Barry

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.
Shirley Chisholm

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.
Shirley Chisholm

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm

I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
Shirley Chisholm

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
Shirley Chisholm

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.
Shirley Chisholm

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
Shirley Chisholm

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.
Shirley Chisholm

The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.
Shirley Chisholm

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
Shirley Chisholm

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
Shirley Chisholm

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.
Shirley Chisholm

I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman's movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.
Shirley Chisholm

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.
Shirley Chisholm

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.
Shirley Chisholm

America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country.
Shirley Chisholm

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.
Shirley Chisholm

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Shirley Chisholm

George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, 'If you all can't vote for me, don't vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!' And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.
Shirley Chisholm

I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
Shirley Chisholm

I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful.
Shirley Chisholm

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.
Shirley Chisholm

Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'
Shirley Chisholm

Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.
Shirley Chisholm