George Canning Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
-
The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
-
I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
-
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
-
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
-
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
-
For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
-
'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
-
I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
-
I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.
-
I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
-
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
-
Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
-
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
-
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
-
'And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.'
-
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
-
My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
-
The only thing I can stand about the Trump campaign are Ivanka's shoes.
-
Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
-
We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.
-
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
-
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.
-
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.
