James Loeb Quotes

The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

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• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
  • Nervous

• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Being
  • Confuse
  • Blunt

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Like
  • Film
  • Dreams

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Government
  • Moral

• I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • House
  • Television
  • Possibilities

• For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • War
  • Growing
  • Support

• Auden is able to set up a We (whom he identifies himself with-rejection loves company) in opposition to the enemy They...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Up
  • Enemy
  • Rejection

• This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Die
  • Heaven

• Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• ‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Young And Wired, Set To explode in the heat.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Song
  • Attention

• Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

  

  Alex Newell
  • People
  • Health
  • Thanks

• A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Dead
  • Fact
  • Removed

• Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

  

  Elizabeth I
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Small

• American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
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  • Men
  • American

• The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

  

  James Loeb
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