John Bright Quotes

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

John Bright

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Great
  • Home
  • Responsibility

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Value
  • Never
  • Say

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Thought
  • Golf

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Always

• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Done
  • Success

• With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Acting

• I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Important
  • Children
  • Future

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

  

  Jose Padilha
  • War
  • Dirty

• I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

  

  John Bright
  • Power
  • War
  • Peace