Brooks Adams Quotes

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • General

• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • House
  • Play
  • Reggae

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Success
  • View

• I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Present
  • Wars
  • Self-Defense

• I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wish

• The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • Like
  • Liberal

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I never lie to my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Never
  • Fans
  • Lie

• Art persists, it timelessly continues.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Continues
  • Persists

• Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Help
  • Law

• You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Time
  • Wish

• In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Writing
  • Running

• We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

  

  Bruce Pittman
  • Great
  • America
  • Future

• Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

  

  Brooks Adams
  • Time
  • Law