Clarence Darrow Quotes
That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13Clarence Darrow
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli -
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt -
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger -
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
Jack Dorsey -
Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David -
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
G. Willow Wilson
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne -
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis -
I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie -
I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
Adam Beach -
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
Alben W. Barkley -
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
Tea Obreht -
'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.
Anurag Kashyap -
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
Jack Lemmon -
...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.
Nikolas Schreck -
That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
Clarence Darrow