Francis Marion Crawford Quotes

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Marion Crawford

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• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Me

• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Couple
  • Court

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Place
  • Dead

• I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Words
  • Where
  • ERA

• Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Better
  • Leaving

• I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • True
  • Style

• I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Movies
  • Obsession
  • Had

• I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • House
  • Food

• I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Look
  • Will
  • Terrorism

• Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Best

• A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Job
  • Back

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• It is a spectacular example of Mughal architecture, blends Islamic, Hindu, and Persian styles.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Architecture
  • Islamic

• Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Country

• Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.

  

  Christmas Humphreys
  • Mankind
  • Whole
  • Other

• When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Time
  • Work

• A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Fear

• I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Live
  • Play
  • Japanese

• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

  

  Francis Marion Crawford