“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
—A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press
Family life quotes
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
—Elbert Hubbard
“There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.”
—Peter De Vries
“Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.”
—Robert Orben
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
—Rosaleen Dickson
“One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.”
—Unknown
“The best thing to spend on your children is your time.”
—Rosaleen Dickson
Quotes
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
—Douglas Adams
“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
—Gerald R. Ford
“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
—Sir Arthur Eddington
Quotes about Politics
“Good government is good politics.”
—Richard J. Daley
“Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”
—George Will
“Because in America, people vote for this or that person. In Russia, not really. In Russia, we say, ‘You are right, Mr. Putin. We do like this guy. Why don’t we go and vote for him?’ It’s not like we make a choice. We approve the choice of the president.”
—Vladimir Solovyov (source)
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”
—John F. Kennedy
More about life
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
—Marie Curie
“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”
—Stephen Covey
“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”
—Irving Berlin
Photography quotes
Found some of good quotes about photography.
“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
—Ansel Adams
“In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.”
—Ansel Adams
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
—Ansel Adams
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
—Ansel Adams
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
—Dorthea Lange
“Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.”
—Dorthea Lange
Problems with using your head
“First thoughts are not always the best.”
—Vittorio Alfieri
“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”
—Willem de Kooning
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
—B. F. Skinner
Usko
“Usko on sen todellisuutta, mitä toivotaan, sen näkemistä, mitä ei nähdä.”
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
“Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope,
and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see.”
“Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see.”
—Hebrews 11:1
Failures of past and things of unknown future
“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”
—Mary Pickford
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
—Mary Pickford
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
—Mary Pickford
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
—George Orwell
“I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”
—Ralph Abernathy
“A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. ”
—Lawrence Lessig
“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”
—John Sculley
