John Boyd Orr Quotes

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

John Boyd Orr

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Violence
  • Organization

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Car
  • Design

• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Want
  • Morning
  • Him

• Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mistake
  • Mistakes
  • Rise

• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Ocean

• Just know what's inside your food.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Food
  • Know
  • Inside

• Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • America
  • Words
  • Youth

• You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Men
  • You
  • Knowledge

• The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Science
  • Value

• She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • She
  • Knowledge

• It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beginning

• I'm mortified to have to pay 50%! While I use the NHS, I can't use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are shit, and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from the album 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.

  

  Adele
  • Fire
  • Gun

• The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Family
  • Father
  • Small

• I see myself not as a leader but as somebody who initiates things or finds the problem or provokes a discussion. You have to be always ready to engage, willing to participate. When events or history happen, you just have to be aware and respond.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • History

• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  

  Bill Shuster
  • American
  • Fighting
  • Military

• I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Word

• My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Taken
  • Reflection
  • Exciting

• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

  

  John Boyd Orr