La La Anthony Quotes

There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.

You're never gonna find the perfect politician.

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

It occured to me that we will never be young again.

The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

What is there that money will not do?

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.