Those who are preoccupied with 'making a statement' usually don't have any statements worth making.
-
Similar:
| Quote 1379 | It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. T... |
| Quote 3805 | No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. |
| Quote 3507 | Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. |
| Quote 6064 | The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not s... |
| Quote 9969 | People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. |
| Quote 1250 | No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. |
| Quote 4338 | As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are... |
| Quote 5702 | The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the... |
| Quote 6845 | During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illus... |