John Prendergast Quotes

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

John Prendergast

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• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Dog
  • Pet
  • Sweater

• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • True
  • Man

• As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Job
  • American

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  

  Larry David
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Party

• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Reassuring

• I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Enjoy

• If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dance
  • Successful
  • Tennis

• I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Time
  • Like
  • Fighting

• While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Waiting
  • Walk
  • Lead

• I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Reputation

• Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Same
  • Say
  • Psychology

• Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Man

• By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Time
  • Involved
  • Got

• You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Running
  • Opinion

• The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Tired

• Thank Heaven! the crisis -The danger is past,And the lingering illnessIs over at last -And the fever called 'Living'Is conquered at last.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Past
  • Heaven

• We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

  

  Dee Rees
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I can't remember when I wasn't running around doing some sort of a sporting activity.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Remember
  • Running

• Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.

  

  Arthur Alfred Lynch
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Order

• She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Women
  • Vanity
  • Assurance

• Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

  

  John Prendergast