John Acton Quotes

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

John Acton

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• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Everything is real on me.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Real
  • Me
  • Everything

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

  

  B. B. King
  • Women
  • Most
  • Singer

• There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Sunshine

• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Stay
  • Valleys

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Now

• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Fence

• I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Think
  • Television

• I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Ends
  • Shots
  • Jail

• The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

  

  Willem de Kooning

• Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Business
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• Huir el rostro al claro desengaño,beber veneno por licor süave,olvidar el provecho, amar el daño;creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe,dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño;esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe.

  

  Lope de Vega

• If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

  

  John Acton
  • Past
  • Knowledge