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

• ‘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

• I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • God
  • High
  • Wish

• It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

  

  Lillie Langtry

• A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Quality

• I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!

  

  William Booth
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Lie
  • Breed
  • Toads

• Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Night

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

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Employment