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

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• 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'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Myself
  • Care

• 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

• To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • End
  • Him

• It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Power
  • Practice

• Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Men
  • Long
  • Death

• A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Man
  • Know

• Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Friends
  • Mom

• 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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