Frank Delaney Quotes

I write - and then I write some more.

Frank Delaney

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• Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Military
  • Morality
  • African

• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Today
  • Society
  • Stop

• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Church
  • Ignorance

• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • High
  • Energy
  • Diet

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Think
  • Model
  • Better

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Business
  • Conservative
  • Enterprise

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Children
  • Brand
  • Lifestyle

• I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Important
  • Think
  • Process

• When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Sing
  • Started
  • Maybe

• In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Free
  • Government

• The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Fan

• I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Feel
  • Ability
  • Confident

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • War
  • Secret
  • Event

• Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Words
  • Language
  • Users

• Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.

  

  Rashid al-Ghannushi
  • Through
  • Continue
  • Represents

• Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Voice
  • Average
  • Dramatic

• I write - and then I write some more.

  

  Frank Delaney