David Hewson Quotes

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

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• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • God
  • Chaos

• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Say

• Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • You
  • Artist
  • Hubris

• We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Live
  • Welfare

• The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Years
  • First

• My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

  

  Larry King
  • Father
  • New York
  • Generosity

• I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Dancing
  • Percent
  • OK

• Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Star
  • Singing

• I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Kids
  • Today
  • College

• Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Same

• Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Home
  • Experience

• Go by reverently, and read with sober careHow a great people, riding with defiant shoutsThe centaur of Revolution,Spurred and whipped to frenzy,Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the seaOver the precipice they were nearing,And fell from his back in precipitate aweTo celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Great
  • Revolution

• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that’s a compliment.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People

• Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • People

• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Close
  • Thick
  • Suitcase

• In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top

• It's hard to give an answer to the question.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Question
  • Answer

• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Show
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  • Dealing

• Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

  

  David Hewson