To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case and I've fallen in love all my life one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different for better or worse.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe which is frequently hilarious.

And remember where you have a concentration of power in a few hands all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes the big ones don't really mean anything.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed seeming to be dragged rather than to march to the intended goal. Something of this sort must I think always happen in public democratic assemblies.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying even if by chance they are later proved right.'

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I think the thing to remember though the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels is that the idea of angels was created by human beings who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

I have frequently been questioned especially by women of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well it has not been easy.

My faith inasmuch as I have any is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue but more frequently of her experience.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being for whom death is not only necessary but frequently even desirable.

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it and you'll wear it frequently so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

It frequently happens that two persons reasoning right on a mechanical subject think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

But my most favourite pursuit after my daily exertions at the Foundry was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

To the man who loves art for its own sake it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life I frequently precipitated what I feared most the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.