Max Beerbohm Quotes

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • News
  • Liberal
  • Rhetoric

• Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Music
  • Way
  • Right

• I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Me
  • Really
  • Well

• Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Me
  • Engineering
  • Economics

• Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Standup

• Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Believe
  • Game
  • Giving

• Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • God
  • Years
  • Word

• I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Know
  • Speak

• My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Saying

• The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Aim

• The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Man
  • Faith

• When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • House

• In Gujarat, the poison of casteism was injected in the name of the KHAM Kshatriyas, Harijans, Adivasis, and Muslims theory. Gujaratis rejected it and turned towards the unity of society. Casteist forces have been rejected in Gujarat, the people's mood is anti-casteist.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Society
  • Mood

• Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

  

  Deion Sanders
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Strong

• So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • People
  • Future
  • Question

• I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Way
  • Interesting

• The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

  

  Vernor Vinge

• No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Teacher

• Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it's the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Small

• Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

  

  Max Beerbohm