Addresses Quotations | Page 3

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." Inaugural address 1789

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Live in the nowhere that you come from even though you have got an address Here.

Hate: return to sender; address unknown.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.