James Clavell Quotes

Just a moment, children - what does 'pledge' mean?

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• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Control
  • Economy
  • Possible

• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Heroes

• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Healing
  • Medical

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • She
  • Better
  • Sorry

• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Life
  • Done
  • Anticipation

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Country
  • Found
  • Fantastic

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Just
  • Head

• From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Policy
  • Buildings

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Down
  • Owning
  • Leverage

• Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

  

  Heraclitus
  • World
  • Live
  • Awake

• Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Children
  • Industry
  • Fortune

• For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Thoughts

• Just a moment, children - what does 'pledge' mean?

  

  James Clavell
  • Children