Burgess Meredith Quotes

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

Burgess Meredith

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• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Child
  • Husband
  • Stubborn

• I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Success
  • Grateful
  • Divine

• The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Truth
  • Dark
  • Presidential

• I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Together
  • Want

• I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Child

• Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Together
  • Change
  • Difference

• As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Tree

• The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • People
  • Sick
  • Healthy

• All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Father

• Does this country really exist?

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Country

• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Different
  • Diversity

• Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.

  

  Ani DiFranco

• i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once. i am the walrus.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Drunk

• Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Future

• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware of the issues we face and the root causes of these issues.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Career

• Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Lawyer
  • Agents
  • Dentist

• Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Job
  • House
  • Rejection

• I am not sure what is meant by those who say that the Party should return to something called 'One Nation Conservatism'. As far as I can tell by their views on European federalism, such people's creed would be better described as 'No Nation Conservatism'.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Party

• I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

  

  Burgess Meredith