Philip James Bailey Quotes

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Philip James Bailey

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wealth

• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Greatness

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Person
  • Rights
  • Others

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Hope
  • Risk

• Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Film
  • Horror

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Destiny
  • Nation
  • Others

• Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • World
  • Work
  • Love

• One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

  

  Alvar N. C. de Vaca
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fate
  • Press

• Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Power
  • Magic
  • Genius

• Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral…

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Universe

• Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Fate
  • Genius
  • Minister