John Heywood Quotes

While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.

John Heywood

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• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Need
  • Clothes

• Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Lost
  • Feet
  • Ground

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Pretty
  • Thought
  • Back

• I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Never
  • Start
  • Jump

• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • You
  • Education

• I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they put it on themselves and listen to the outside stuff. I have great teammates and great coaches that do the right things around me that allows me to just focus on the game of football.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • She
  • Prayer

• Trust me, I’ve read your German sageTo far more purpose e’er than you did;You find it in his wisest page,Whom God deludes is well deluded.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Trust

• Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World

• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Job
  • Black
  • Stop

• If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Simple

• I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
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  • Joy

• I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Long
  • Pretty

• The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Society
  • Law

• Serena, for me, is one of the best players in the world. She is a great person and a great champion.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • World
  • Great
  • She

• Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • High
  • Always

• When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Writing
  • Age

• In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Different
  • Around
  • Having

• While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.

  

  John Heywood