S.R. Ford Quotes

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.

Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously the man who can sing tenor.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

Before everything else getting ready is the secret of success.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.

We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.

But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?

He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!

This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

The force is within you force yourself.

The force is within you, force yourself.

I… have an unnatural fondness for him, Duchess. One might even say that I love him. As a man should love a woman, really.” “Well, I would imagine the mechanics of that would be different.

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three—those who depend on you must never see it.

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

The last time someone had laid out a suit and a pair of dress shoes with a ticket purchased for a faraway place, Henry had refused to go.This time, Henry refused to stay.

You don't have to, Henry. In here, I think my dream is big enough for the both of us.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.

If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business.

He was awed at her touch and what the human heart is capable of feeling - such sadness, such shame, but such acceptance such joy, all at the same time.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

God's given me a fierce passion for teaching girl's my age and younger, maybe even older, about purity, and the fact that it is not a physical thing but in fact that of the heart.

Everyone wants to protect their heart, but without pain, one can never have joy.

Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?

Creativity is a delicious dream from which I never want to awake.

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

Were men and women ever really just friends?

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.