Joseph Butler Quotes

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

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• When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Space

• Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Party
  • Structure

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Children
  • Know
  • Hunger

• Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Failure
  • Poverty
  • Hardship

• The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Years
  • First

• I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • London
  • Feel Good

• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Quality

• 'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • Book
  • History

• Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Independent
  • Find
  • British

• 'The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Earth
  • Strong
  • Sad

• The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Memory
  • Benefit
  • Ingratitude

• I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • True

• A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Listening

• CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

  

  Derek Magyar
  • School

• It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past – oh so bright and clear! – oh so longed after! – because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall – or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable – more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Music
  • Love
  • Solitude

• Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

  

  Friedrich List

• I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Up
  • Science
  • Black

• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  

  John Milton
  • Time

• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
  • Conscious

• Happiness does not consist in self-love.

  

  Joseph Butler