Matthew Arnold Quotes

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

Matthew Arnold

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• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Friday

• Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Hand
  • Growth
  • Values

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Strategy

• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Down

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Story

• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Military
  • Revolution

• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Serious
  • Very
  • Weapons

• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Home
  • Focus

• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Become
  • Task

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Winning
  • Things
  • Habit

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Achieve

• When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.

  

  Jesse Watters

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Bad
  • Acting
  • Actor

• The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

  

  David Whyte
  • Great
  • Poetry

• All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Time
  • Sun

• I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Rock

• What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Time
  • Great
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