Matthew Arnold Quotes

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Matthew Arnold

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• The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Responsibility
  • Fighting
  • Army

• One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growing
  • Opportunities

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• I'm probably the most negative person around.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Person
  • Negative
  • Most

• I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Fan
  • Wood
  • Pulp

• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • True
  • Man

• It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Love
  • Why
  • Mystery

• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Feeling
  • Idea
  • Birth

• Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Space
  • Go

• I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • High

• I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Book

• I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Money
  • Proud
  • Enemy

• Let us leave behind the legacy of both colonization and communism, the tyranny of drug cartels, dictators and sham elections. A future of greater peace, security and democratic development is possible if we work together - not to maintain power, not to secure vested interest, but instead to advance the dreams of our citizens.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Power
  • Together

• Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Remember
  • Dying
  • December

• Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Training
  • Divorce

• Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing. You need to let the song decide.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Song
  • Squares
  • Delicate Things

• Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Team
  • Technology

• If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.

  

  Josh Elliott
  • Television
  • News
  • Direction

• There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Good
  • Moral

• A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.

  

  David Crystal
  • Together
  • Community

• And we forget because we must and not because we will.

  

  Matthew Arnold