James Q. Wilson Quotes

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

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• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Christian
  • Serious

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Song
  • Care
  • Take Care

• Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Proud

• On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Great
  • Together

• I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Afraid

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

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

  

  John Muir
  • People
  • World
  • Relationship

• Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Money
  • Crazy
  • Teen

• Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

  

  James Q. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Law