James G. Frazer Quotes

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

James G. Frazer

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• English
• Hands
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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Men
  • Business
  • English

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
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• I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Book
  • History
  • Think

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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  • Peace
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• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Wonder
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• There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • New
  • New York

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  

  Haniel Long
  • May
  • History
  • Human

• When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • History
  • Reading
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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Hands
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  • Intelligence

• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Night
  • Words
  • Hand

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
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• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
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• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Want
  • English

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Hands
  • Fate
  • Allah

• I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway. ... I think it is maybe time - what do you think - for maybe a businessman. How about that? A stellar businessman.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • Time
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• Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres.

  

  Plautus

• It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Drama

• Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There's the role you're playing on the show, and there's also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans - not to mention your own life as a mom.

  

  Kathryn Erbe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Energy

• Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • City

• But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • History
  • English
  • Hands