I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
Samuel Goldwyn

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
Samuel Goldwyn

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy