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I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no.
nelson mandela— On why he continues to be active in social and political issues.
Dinocrates, I appreciate your design as excellent in composition, and I am delighted with it, but I apprehend that anybody who should found a city in that spot would be censured for bad judgement. For as a newborn babe cannot be nourished without the nurse's milk, nor conducted to the approaches that lead to growth in life, so a city cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls.
Alexander the Great— Vitruvius, De Architectura Bk.2, Introduction, Sec.3
We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.
sarada devi— Swami Saradeshananda (1976-1981). "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". Vedanta Kesari.
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
— Kurt Vonnegut, in A Man Without a Country (2005).
anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.
eric s. raymond— Homesteading the Noosphere
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time.
— 1919 Telegram to the President of the American Federation of Labor, while Coolidge was Governor of Massachusetts during the Boston police strike.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
oscar wilde— A Woman of No Importance, Lady Caroline, act 2 (1893)
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.
gracie allen— As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 51
Supposing I had gone to the country [in 1933], and said that Germany was re-arming, and that we must re-arm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment? I cannot think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain...we got from the country [in 1935], with a large majority, a mandate for doing a thing no one, twelve months earlier, would have believed possible.
stanley baldwin— Baldwin answering Winston Churchill in the House of Commons (12 November 1936), as quoted in Churchill: A Study in Failure 1900-1939 (1970) by Robert Rhodes James, p. 268
If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so.
Henri Bourassa— Henri Bourassa, Fiery Politician, Dies, The Globe and Mail, September 1, 1952, page A1
The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
heywood broun— "Bring on the Artist", New York World Telegram, June 19, 1933
I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
ralph waldo emerson— February 1855
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.
u. g. krishnamurti— Copyright release found in this and several other publications of his conversations
"I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days."
willie nelson— Nelson, Willie; McMurtry, Larry (2003). The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes. Random House Digital. p. 29. ISBN 9780375758607.
I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity … I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.
mark oliphant— On potentials for misuse of nuclear power, p. 31
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
rabindranath tagore— 61
It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
bill gates— Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980)
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
bill gates— Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC's 640kB program memory a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64kB, but he has denied making this remark. Also see the 1989 and 1993 remarks above.
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
Eric Hoffer— Manuscript note, quoted at The Eric Hoffer Award official site
(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.
morrissey— From a radio interview with Janice Long (2002)
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration.… I assume full political responsibility for what happened.
augusto pinochet— Birthday announcement (25 November 2006); "Pinochet Takes 'Political Responsibility' for Actions of Chilean Dictatorship" (26 November 2006) Washington Post
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
orson welles— Quoted by Peter Bogdanovich, from the DVD audio commentary on The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
— Oscar Wilde "The True Function and Value of Criticism." The Nineteenth Century XXVII (July-December 1890): 137.
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor; ask anybody, particularly the critics.
— Attributed.
I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
frederick douglass— Lecture, "The Anti-Slavery Movement" (1855)
Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to believe you [Gene]. Christ, I've got to believe you, at least. I know you better than anybody.
john knowles— Finny, on his trust in Gene.
— P. 163
[But] we should not be kowtowing to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country.
kevin rudd— Mainstream media takes a cautious line over blasphemous cartoons. Sydney Morning Herald (February 7, 2006). Retrieved on 13 February, 2008.
— Response to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, and whether publishing the cartoons would be appropriate in Australian media outlets.
Do not even flippantly badmouth anybody this week. Button it up.
tom peters— November 2, 2010
