Joseph J. Ellis Quotes

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

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• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Country
  • Question

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Found
  • Questions

• Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Work
  • God
  • Character

• The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Country
  • Patient
  • Dispute

• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Fiction

• This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Help
  • Strong
  • Waiting

• Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Serious

• On one level, I realize the basic appeal of my character is her body. But the totality of the Conan film is really much more than that. When I read the script, I thought it was just a matter of sword fighting. But when I read the books, I found they were filled with sorcery, and I liked that very much. I've always loved fairy tales, and I've always believed that just around the corner, magic truly does exist, human magic.

  

  Valérie Quennessen
  • Character
  • Realize
  • Level

• Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Army
  • Faces

• We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • See
  • Stars
  • Constellations

• I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Children
  • Decision
  • Musician

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Play
  • Prince
  • Cowboy

• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Art
  • Death
  • Artist

• Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

  

  Eugene Grace
  • Bridge
  • Built
  • Machines

• It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Happen
  • Probability

• Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

  

  Joseph J. Ellis
  • Inevitable
  • Transform
  • Improbable