Joshua L. Liebman (Joshua Loth Liebman) Quotes

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Joshua L. Liebman

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• All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Funny

• For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Water
  • Thought
  • Greatest

• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Guilty
  • Discovery

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dad

• I was not an easy kid.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Easy
  • Kid

• The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Response
  • Generosity

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Anything
  • Surprised
  • Anymore

• One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • English

• Did not Troyon tell me to enter the studio of Couture in Paris? It is needless to tell you how decided was my refusal to do so. I admit even that it cooled me, temporarily at least, in my esteem and admiration of Troyon.. ..and I after all, connected myself only with artists who were seeking.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paris

• When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.

  

  Future
  • Family

• For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

  

  Kim Campbell
  • Design
  • Poverty

• We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

  

  Douglas Leone
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

  

  Brooke Burns
  • Alone

• Nothing good comes out of depression.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Good
  • Depression

• I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People

• The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • World

• It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Fun
  • Weird

• My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Growing

• The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?

  

  Gary North
  • Judge
  • Israel
  • Ancient

• In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • People

• Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Accepting
  • Tolerance
  • Beliefs