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

• The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Thought

• 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

• Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • Long
  • Sports

• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Habit
  • Knowing
  • Loves

• So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself.

  

  Craig Bellamy
  • Look
  • Blame

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

  

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