Bryant H. McGill Quotes

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Bryant H. McGill

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• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• Money just draws flies.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Just
  • Flies

• I'm not making films just to be bold.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Just
  • Bold
  • Making

• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• If you are explaining, you are losing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Losing
  • Explaining

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Environment
  • Chaos

• There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Proud

• Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Learning
  • Start

• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Action
  • Kind
  • President

• I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Young
  • Now
  • Boring

• I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Words
  • Like
  • Paper

• All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Men
  • Famous
  • Say

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Need
  • Meaning

• This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Pretty
  • Easy
  • Tough

• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Turn
  • Employees

• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  

  Antonia Thomas
  • Music
  • Father
  • Theatre

• Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

  

  David Brock
  • Power
  • Trump

• Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

  

  Bob Kerrey

• I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Time
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines

• If you do right, everything will come out right.

  

  Wolfman Jack
  • Right
  • Do
  • Come Out

• He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

  

  Bryant H. McGill