William Howard Taft

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

George Steinbrenner

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

John Bonham

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Henri Laborit

“Doubting, it’s believing that we never had understood the whole thing”. –Henri Laborit

Turgut Özal

“The only thing not to do in a crisis is to remain in the status quo. Up to the present every crisis has ultimately served as a springboard for progress”. –Turgut Özal

Henri de Lubac

“It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions”. –Henri de Lubac

Bertolt Brecht

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are”. –Bertolt Brecht

Theodor Adorno

“The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit”. –Theodor Adorno

Boris Pasternak

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise”. –Boris Pasternak

Elvis Presley

“The image is one thing and the human being is another… it’s very hard to live up to an image”. –Elvis Presley

T.S. Eliot

“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”. –T.S. Eliot

Virgil

“Time bears away all things, even our minds”. –Virgil

William Hazlitt

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest”. –William Hazlitt

William Morris

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name”. –William Morris

Irving Berlin

“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success”. –Irving Berlin

Friedrich Engels

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgement of Reason, or give up existence”. –Friedrich Engels

Jack Paar

“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off”. –Jack Paar

Earl Warren

“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they regard the things government does for others as socialism”. –Earl Warren

Luc de Clapiers

“To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die”. –Luc de Clapiers

Adlai Stevenson

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be”. –Adlai Stevenson

Margaret Sanger

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it”. –Margaret Sanger

Oscar Wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

Humphrey Bogart

“Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse”. –Humphrey Bogart

Vincent van Gogh

“There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation, many things remain incomprehensible and dark”. –Vincent van Gogh

Niels Bohr

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel; for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are”. –Niels Bohr

Niccolo Machiavelli

“It ought be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”. –Niccolo Machiavelli

Lucille Ball

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done”. –Lucille Ball

Juvenal

“Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence”. –Juvenal