Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Great passions my dear don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

That no government so called can reasonably be trusted or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save invest innovate and work.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather they look to their portfolios.

In the final analysis the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions no longer asking why something happened but asking how we will respond what we intend to do now that it happened.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him and I hope he survives it.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

I enjoy every minute because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

I look forward to a time in the not so distant future when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

When the past no longer illuminates the future the spirit walks in darkness.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller Gabriel Noone who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS who does not have much longer to live.

The building of friendship family community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.