John Griffin Carlisle Quotes

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

John Griffin Carlisle

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• I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Attention
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• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Mean
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• My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Long
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  • Doubt

• When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Decision

• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Torture

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Business
  • Fashion

• In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Today
  • Style
  • Now

• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Done
  • Leaving
  • Australia

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Test
  • Member
  • Became

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Time
  • May
  • Feeling

• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Food
  • Light

• Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • American
  • You

• There've been times where, like when I auditioned for 'Akeelah,' I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, 'Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I'm just a newcomer,' and this and that.

  

  Keke Palmer

• Whatever happens on tour... stays on tour!

  

  Wizkid
  • Happens
  • Tour
  • Stays

• Guys don't seem to think this, but the stuff that girls talk about is more raunchy than what guys talk about in a football lockeroom.

  

  Scott Porter
  • Football
  • Guys
  • Girls

• And she's like 'Angie Harmon is here'!! So I was like, well let me...well fuck me then and I ran as fast as I could!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • She

• If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Wings
  • All Things
  • Disbelieve

• Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

  

  John Griffin Carlisle