Joseph Priestley Quotes

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

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• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Kindness
  • Late

• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Know
  • Prayer

• We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Know

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Today

• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Capitalism is the least romantic conception of a public order that the human mind has ever conceived.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Mind
  • Romantic

• If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Movie

• I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

  

  Janis Joplin
  • People
  • Good
  • Texas

• I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Proud

• Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

  

  Jesse Lee Soffer

• My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Great
  • Grandmother

• I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • Work

• I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Writing
  • Wish

• I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

  

  Benjamin David Goodman
  • Remember
  • Stop
  • Band

• So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• On my show you always take the far camera. I get the front one. Remember that.

  

  Phil Silvers
  • Show
  • Camera

• The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

  

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