Walter Bagehot Quotes

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Walter Bagehot

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Military

• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Doubt
  • Said
  • Try

• I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Always
  • See
  • Look

• Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Books

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Look
  • Forward

• I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Said
  • Going
  • Phones

• Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Look
  • Clothes

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Look

• Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Look
  • Good Things

• I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Look
  • Routine

• I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • House
  • Mess
  • Clean

• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Look
  • Figures

• I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • House
  • Cool
  • Rock

• I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Should
  • Look

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.

  

  Jessica Lucas
  • Career
  • House

• My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

  

  James Wolk
  • Women
  • Art
  • Dad

• If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

  

  James Boswell
  • Man
  • Born
  • Fortune

• Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.

  

  Anthony Lane
  • Children
  • Philosophy
  • Motion

• If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it may be, I believe that's walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I do not think the Bible would characterize them as a Christian.

  

  Chris Broussard
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • House
  • Look
  • Said