Charles Tupper Quotes

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

Charles Tupper

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• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Cause
  • Effect

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Good
  • Design

• Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • She
  • Mother
  • Responsibility

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dark

• I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Like
  • Catholic
  • Point

• Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Reality
  • Grace

• He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Unknown
  • Fame

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I need you, and with your love I'm free And truly, you know you're alright with me.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Free

• ... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Abuse

• It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• That is the fourth course, which in future I trust the right hon. Gentleman (Sir R. Peel) will not forget. The right hon. Gentleman tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small precedent. He traces the steam-engine always back to the tea-kettle. His precedents are generally tea-kettle precedents.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Great
  • Future
  • Small

• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Presidential

• All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Art
  • Innocence

• What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • She
  • Talking
  • Names

• If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Possible
  • Exist
  • Contrary

• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  

  George Bird Grinnell
  • Lying
  • Mountain
  • Currents

• The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

  

  Charles Tupper
  • Gentleman