Jonah Goldberg Quotes

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

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• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Funny
  • Baseball

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.

  

  Babyface
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Better

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • May
  • Man
  • Reality

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• Having a son is not all pleasure.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Son
  • Pleasure
  • Having

• I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
  • Person
  • Option

• I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Music
  • Politics

• I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Hope
  • Mistake

• Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Support
  • Catholic

• I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Great
  • True

• The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Live
  • Society
  • Value

• Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Men
  • Desire

• A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Reality
  • Doing
  • Perception

• Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

  

  Jonah Goldberg