Paul Weller Quotes

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

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• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Government
  • Progress

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • God
  • Man
  • Fall

• Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Air
  • Ball
  • Hitting

• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Comedy

• If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Institutions

• I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Person

• A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Think
  • Run

• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Interesting
  • Intelligent
  • New

• Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Passion
  • Car
  • Bike

• I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Just
  • Treasure

• Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Learning
  • Pet
  • Parenting

• I'm a rather decisive type.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Type
  • Rather
  • Decisive

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Want
  • Talking

• There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Black
  • Attitude

• The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Moments

• The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Great

• Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals, the experience of positive emotional feelings, and a sense of spirituality that connects people to things larger than themselves.

  

  Ed Diener
  • Experience
  • Goals
  • Satisfaction

• With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.

  

  David Garrow
  • Emotional
  • Victory

• I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • New York
  • Ready
  • Coach

• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Justice
  • Ideas

• Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito