John Selden Quotes

Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

John Selden

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• I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Universe

• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Defeat
  • Thoughtful
  • Twitter

• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Live
  • Rise

• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Child
  • Moment

• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Long
  • Acting

• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • People
  • Read
  • News

• And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Why
  • Wife
  • Christian

• 'Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Stock

• My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. Then beams of the huge night Converged upon its image, Until the wind blew.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Wind

• Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: 'take off your pants'; 'dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep'; etc.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Hand
  • Fall
  • Water

• When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

  

  Jim Talent

• Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Dad

• I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Food
  • Said
  • Might

• It's a completely different universe. We're safer today, but the world in which we live is more complex.

  

  Anne McLellan
  • World
  • Universe
  • Complex

• Amor de' far gentile un cor villano,E non far d'un gentil contrario effetto.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• It is so much easier to covet what one hasn’t than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn’t.

  

  Max Beerbohm

• A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Like
  • Ways
  • Approach

• Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

  

  John Selden