Valuable Things quotes

  • Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.

  • Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

  • My advice to young women who are looking to be successful; make sure you're passionate about whatever it is that you're doing. And make sure you're fulfilled by the opportunities within your job.

  • The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.

  • True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.

  • Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  • I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

  • Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

  • Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

  • The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.