Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

The status quo is working.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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• All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Work
  • Support
  • Reading

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Doubt
  • Without
  • Machinery

• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Down
  • Back

• It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Task

• I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Time
  • Good
  • Find

• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Silence
  • Dangerous
  • Some

• I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Happy
  • Corruption
  • Be Happy

• Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?

  

  Val McDermid
  • Government
  • Police
  • Interests

• Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Song
  • Words
  • Know

• We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Government
  • Choices
  • More

• If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Proud
  • Right

• To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Community

• Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Friends

• I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Life
  • Mind

• I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!

  

  Kresley Cole
  • Book
  • Hero

• Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • Money
  • Done
  • California

• For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Children
  • Money

• At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

  

  Viola Davis
  • World
  • Good
  • Status Quo

• The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Church
  • Voice
  • Supporter

• I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.

  

  Mike Farrell
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Moments

• The status quo is working.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Status Quo