John Heywood Quotes

The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)

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• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Long
  • War
  • Nuclear Weapons

• What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Good
  • Why
  • Law

• If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Know
  • Doubt
  • Colleagues

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Race
  • Nation
  • Class

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Road
  • Yourself
  • Take Care

• It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Feel

• Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Insulting

• I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Away
  • Carried

• Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Life
  • Future
  • Die

• Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • True
  • Jealousy

• I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

  

  Kaki King
  • Play
  • Having
  • Rely

• Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Heart
  • Things
  • Much

• There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • May
  • Write
  • Decide

• I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Hope
  • Skill

• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • True
  • Yourself

• I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Evil

• It's funny: the one time I got star-struck was when I met Snoop Dogg. I gave him a hug and said, 'I love you, man.'

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Star

• War made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

  

  Evadne Price
  • War
  • Fought
  • Applaud

• Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

  

  John Heywood
  • Shoes

• But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Society
  • Passion
  • DIsoder

• It is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Worry
  • Slave
  • Defense

• The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)

  

  John Heywood