James Anthony Froude Quotes

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

James Anthony Froude

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• Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Half

• I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Art
  • College
  • Painting

• But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sometimes

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Career
  • Me
  • Acting

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Control
  • Justice

• It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Good
  • Talent

• It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • You
  • Hair

• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • America
  • Think
  • Hero

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Game
  • Political

• I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Children
  • Hate
  • Birthday

• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • See
  • Nothing

• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Deep

• That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Change

• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

  

  Anohni
  • World
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

  

  Faith Sullivan
  • Business

• Obviously I'm fast, and I'm going to have to utilize that speed, but I'm also going to have to be smart. I'm also strong, and I have a punch, so I'm going to have to use all my qualities to be able to fight against Angulo, and I just feel whoever's the best prepared that night is going to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Night
  • Strong
  • Best

• There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

  

  Betty Parsons
  • Death
  • Control

• If Mike Tyson was the voice of your GPS, would you ever not use it?

  

  Artie Lange
  • Voice
  • Mike Tyson
  • GPS

• We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Opinion
  • Complex
  • Beings