James F. Byrnes Quotes

The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

James F. Byrnes

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• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Eye
  • Smile
  • Her

• I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Day
  • Period
  • Modern

• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Mind
  • Family

• I'd rather entertain people than offend them.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Rather
  • Offend

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Sun
  • Story
  • Sky

• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Vote
  • Cultural

• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Something
  • Only
  • Originality

• I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Great
  • Real
  • Think

• Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your lane is naturally. Don't try to force yourself into someone else's vision or try to tell a story that you're not passionate about.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Vision
  • Story

• I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Moral

• In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Society

• There will be commotions and turbulent times, Seek no peace - it will not accrue to thee. The Ruler of Heaven knows thy prayer. From his ardent wrath thy praise has propitiated him The Sovereign King of Glory addresses me with wisdom Hast thou seen the dominus fortis? Knowest thou the profound prediction domini?

  

  Taliesin
  • Peace
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Up

• Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Waves

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allâh’s Messenger (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) kiss you, I would never have kissed you.

  

  Umar
  • Kiss
  • Benefits
  • Kissing

• I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Control

• I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."

  

  Harry Hay
  • Walking alone

• The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

  

  James F. Byrnes