A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.A. J. P. Taylor
Quotes to Explore
-
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg -
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff -
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
Naomi Klein -
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Orson Scott Card -
I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
Katee Sackhoff
-
I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
Barry McCaffrey -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson -
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
Mamie Gummer -
I'm a composer, man.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
-
All I ever wanted to do is make music.
Caleb Johnson -
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel Alexander -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
Karen Morley -
After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?'
Jennifer Egan
-
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.
William Clay Ford, Jr. -
I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.
Mohamed Salah -
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
A. J. P. Taylor