I.F. Stone Quotes

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party.

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Jimmy Ford is the baddest white man on the planet.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.

I only watch TV when I go to hotels.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.