Ernie Banks Quotes

I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

Ernie Banks

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• Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Terrorism
  • Tongue
  • Lens

• I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Trump

• There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Human

• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Reality

• It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Time
  • American
  • Simple

• In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Purpose
  • Thing

• The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Game
  • Child
  • Movement

• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Instead
  • Observers
  • Participators

• Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Death
  • Birth

• "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Prayer
  • Spring

• I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Youth
  • Sadness

• My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Attention
  • Imagination
  • Habit

• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Pleasure
  • Deceive
  • Deceiver

• I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Write
  • Songs

• It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

  

  Homer
  • Man
  • Stories
  • Wine

• Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Friends

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Beings
  • Weapons
  • Courageous

• I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Human Beings
  • Complicated
  • Watched