John Robert Seeley Quotes

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

John Robert Seeley

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• I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Life
  • Truth
  • My Life

• Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Violence

• Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Party
  • Sometimes

• In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Know
  • Fashion

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Learning
  • Much
  • Perfecting

• First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Spirits

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • Country
  • Guy

• I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Write
  • Place

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• When I was five I had violin lessons.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Lessons
  • Had
  • VIolin

• I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Life
  • Women
  • Remember

• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

• When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • You
  • Child

• I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • First

• Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Pretty

• You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Best
  • Embrace
  • Metallica

• The last two years have been tough. We all share in that. We haven't done our job. But I look around the division now, and we match up pretty well. I think we can do some damage.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Job
  • Share
  • Damage

• I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

  

  Sharon Horgan
  • Comedy
  • Acting
  • Laugh

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

  

  John Robert Seeley