Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Kid
  • Holidays

• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • People
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
  • Constitution
  • Union

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

  

  E. L. James
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Everyday

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

  Ian Hart
  • American
  • Films
  • Attracted

• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Comfortable
  • Skin
  • Jew

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

  

  Chaka Khan
  • Trying

• I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Sarcastic

• I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • City
  • Chicago

• In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • America

• When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Country