George Will Quotes
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.George Will
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
J. J. Watt -
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk -
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame -
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
Sally Mann -
You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
Raf Simons -
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London -
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso -
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken -
I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
Yitzhak Shamir
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
Laura Ziskin -
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
Yuri Milner -
''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
Orson Scott Card -
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
Bertrand Russell -
America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.
Chris Stapleton -
The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
Fred Upton -
When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.
Gene Wolfe -
'...faith and repentance, i. e. believing Jesus to be the Messiah, and a good life, are the indispensable conditions of the new covenant, to be performed by all those who would obtain eternal life. (The reasonableness, or rather necessity of which, that we may the better comprehend, we must a little look back to what was said in the beginning'
John Locke Nazareth -
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
George Will