H. W. Brands Quotes

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Management
  • Will

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Driven
  • Musically
  • Lyrically

• I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn't matter.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Never
  • Matter
  • Alcohol

• I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Bad
  • Being
  • Reputation

• As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • America
  • Feel

• Although an important amount of repairs and conservation works have been carried out right from the British period in India these have not compromised to the original qualities of the buildings.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Important
  • Period

• Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• Shelley was kicked out of Oxford-I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares-because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Heaven
  • Wall

• ‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.

  

  Agatha Christie

• I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Italian

• 180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

  

  Emily Procter
  • Lipstick

• As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris

• I'm not really into the fashion thing.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Fashion

• As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Education
  • Democracy
  • Goals

• There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Great
  • History
  • Future

• There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Men
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Men
  • Song
  • Generation

• LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Son
  • Husband

• Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Employment