One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.
I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.
This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.
I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.
I've been around the bend in corporations.
I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.
Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need, and tens of millions of Americans have been the beneficiaries.
Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.
I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.