Douglas Alexander Quotes

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

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• I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Christian

• We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Experiences

• A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Way
  • You
  • Eye

• There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Culture
  • Play
  • Popular

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Literature

• That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Problem
  • Focus
  • Bored

• 'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Never

• In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Different
  • Two
  • Unity

• Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hate

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mistake
  • Voice
  • Easy

• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Time
  • Film
  • Care

• Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Great
  • Money
  • Ideas

• I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Oh, God! it is a fearful thingTo see the human soul take wingIn any shape, in any mood.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Soul
  • Mood

• In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion, between the respective values of the different values of the different metals in the coin, the value of the most precious metal regulates the value of the whole coin.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Value

• Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Servant

• The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

  

  James Spader
  • World
  • Different
  • Interesting

• What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School
  • Secret
  • Funny Harry Potter

• Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Conviction

• The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

  

  Douglas Alexander