George Carlin Quotes

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • More
  • Advanced
  • Poland

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Routine

• Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Blue
  • Face
  • Strategy

• Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • War
  • Peace
  • Capitalism

• The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Government

• I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • Night
  • Die

• You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Name

• One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Election

• Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Passion
  • Wise
  • Christ

• No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Future
  • Stop
  • Technology

• In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Work
  • Soul

• We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • School
  • Crying

• When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Church
  • Passions

• At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Car
  • Start
  • Seeing

• We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Time
  • Live
  • Country

• Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Believe
  • Relationship
  • Prayer

• Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

  

  George Carlin