James A. Garfield Quotes

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

James A. Garfield

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Life
  • Great
  • Eating

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Eating

• Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Fighting
  • Poverty
  • Programs

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Family
  • Universe
  • Weird

• One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Me
  • Cup

• Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Women
  • Power

• I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Broke

• Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • World
  • Night
  • Vision

• Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Science

• Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Hip Hop

• To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Smart

• The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

  

  Black Elk
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Men