John Galsworthy Quotes

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

John Galsworthy

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• I'm not a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Republican

• The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Reality
  • Stronger
  • Palestine

• Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Name
  • Partner

• Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Cool
  • Conversation
  • Walk

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• The Swiss can be very difficult.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Difficult
  • Very
  • Swiss

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Guy
  • Ideas
  • Hair

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Different
  • Food
  • Eyes

• In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • World
  • Government
  • Name

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Man
  • Society
  • Doubt

• The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Science

• I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Friend

• Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fear
  • Anger
  • Drive

• Without an industrial economy, the modern army, as in America, could not exist; it is an army of machines. Professional economists usually consider military institutions as parasitic upon the means of production. Now, however, such institutions have come to shape much of the economic life of the United States.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Life
  • America
  • Military

• Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fall
  • Equality

• Her respectful tone sounded almost sincere.

  

  Ann Leckie

• Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Time
  • Search

• On shooting days, I have all my accessories, and I style the final look.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Style

• I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Life
  • Long
  • Death

• Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • World
  • Job
  • Mother

• No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Spring

• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

  

  John Galsworthy