Christopher Morley Quotes

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Christopher Morley

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• Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Having Fun

• Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • American
  • Universe

• If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Politician
  • Ask

• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Beyond

• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Business
  • War

• My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Parents
  • Positive

• I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • School
  • Values

• You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Person
  • Learn
  • Company

• Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • You
  • Me
  • See

• So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Advice

• Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Quality

• I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Good
  • Important
  • Trying

• McLeavy: Where did I go wrong? His upbringing was faultless. Did you lead him astray?Dennis: I was innocent till I met him.Hal: You met me when you were three days old.

  

  Joe Orton
  • Innocent

• Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Character
  • Carpet

• On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.

  

  David Lack
  • Character
  • Science
  • Differences

• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

  

  Christopher Morley