John Stuart Mill Quotes

For my own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of mankind, and may become so among the rest.

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Today
  • Political
  • Serious

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Small
  • Child
  • Advice

• That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Live
  • Funny

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Education
  • Need
  • Will

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Writing
  • Fact

• I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

  

  John Sweeney
  • Life
  • Career
  • Lost

• I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel.

  

  Danny Danon
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

  

  Georg Buchner

• For my own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of mankind, and may become so among the rest.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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