John Morley Quotes

Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.

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• I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rest

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Going
  • Polls

• Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I want everyone to know that I'm here. We'll talk; we'll visit.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Want
  • Know
  • Republican

• Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Always
  • Same
  • More

• Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Control
  • Government

• I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Country
  • Today
  • Growth

• If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Poetry

• Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Respect
  • Special

• Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • World
  • Work
  • Love

• Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Want
  • Story
  • Finding

• When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.

  

  Randy Pausch

• A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country

• 'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Death
  • Hand

• As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

  

  Keith Teare
  • Moving

• Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity.

  

  Andre Norton
  • Wisdom
  • Evil
  • Path

• Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

  

  Jim Beaver
  • People
  • Drama
  • Path

• Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • Why
  • Soul
  • Earth

• It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

  

  Brian Baumgartner
  • Game
  • Pretty
  • Baseball

• Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.

  

  John Morley
  • Path