John Stuart Mill Quotes
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
-
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
-
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
-
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
-
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
-
NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
-
I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
-
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
-
Amateurs hope, professionals work.
-
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
-
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
-
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
-
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
-
I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
-
Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
-
Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
-
I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'
-
Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
-
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
-
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
-
If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
-
We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.
-
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
