Quotes · Skopia

85 quotes

Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

W.V.O. Quine

1981

★ 0.8

Short story

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

1953

★ 0.9

Speech · Political speech

The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft · 1909

★ 1.0

Speech · Political speech

Surely there must have been God's intent in the making of this new-world Republic. Ours is an organic law which had but one ambiguity, and we saw that effaced in a baptism of sacrifice and blood, with union maintained, the Nation supreme, and its concord inspiring.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.0

Letter

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

1908

★ 1.1

Interview · Magazine

Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here?

Maya Lin

2011

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

By the experience of commercial nations in all ages it has been found that gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system.

James A. Garfield

Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield · 1881

★ 1.2

TV program

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

Bob Hope

1953

★ 1.2

Speech

Words mean something different depending on the person who says them, right?

Gloria Steinem

2009

★ 1.2

Essay · Magazine

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Toni Morrison

2015

★ 1.2

Interview · Magazine

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Toni Morrison

1981

★ 1.3

Hymn · Song

I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.

George Bennard

The Old Rugged Cross · 1912

★ 1.8

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.

Orville Wright

1903

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft · 1909

★ 1.9

Essay

It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

1911

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

America, our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

There is a luring fallacy in the theory of banished barriers of trade, but preserved American standards require our higher production costs to be reflected in our tariffs on imports.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

With the nation-wide induction of womanhood into our political life, we may count upon her intuitions, her refinements, her intelligence, and her influence to exalt the social order. We count upon her exercise of the full privileges and the performance of the duties of citizenship to speed the attainment of the highest state.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

Courtroom speech · Speech

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

1925

★ 1.9

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