James A. Garfield Quotes

Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.

James A. Garfield

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• What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Soul

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Day

• The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • Time
  • Film
  • Goal

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Pretty
  • Space
  • Walk

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • Look
  • Shoes

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Power
  • Morality

• I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Life
  • American
  • Hate

• No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Identify

• Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Baby
  • Last
  • Firefighters

• Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • People
  • Work
  • Die

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Life
  • Home

• I been a cuppa Irish guys for 150 pounds.

  

  Beetlejuice
  • Guy
  • Irish
  • Having Fun

• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Mercy
  • Idols

• O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Faults
  • Currents
  • Payment

• I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • May
  • Action