C.C. Franklin Quotes

The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

I don't want people to think that I'm standing on the steps of the capitals.

There was one thing I was never going to do--no way: preach at a crusade!

I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible.

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.