Ezra Stiles Quotes

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

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• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Live
  • Lost

• As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Young

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Like
  • Dark
  • Break

• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Health
  • Care
  • Physician

• I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Guy
  • Everything
  • Big

• Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Religious
  • Target
  • Radical

• I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Style
  • Flow

• I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Parents
  • Eat
  • Chubby

• When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Book
  • First
  • Wrote

• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Single

• Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • You
  • Someone
  • Again

• In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

  

  Wally Amos
  • Reading
  • Areas
  • Cookies

• I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Film
  • Obligation

• Now all the bums is wondering where I be's at -if you ain't a barbie it's none of your freaking beeswax!!!

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Wonder
  • Ifs
  • Barbie

• 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Home
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• It has to hurt Miami, as effective as the two back rotation was for them last year. Ronnie looked to be a guy who could handle more responsibility and now he'll have the chance. But it's such a shame. After all the work Ricky put in and all the work the Dolphins put into him, it's sad for a guy who seemed to have his act back together.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Work
  • Together
  • Guy

• When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Chance
  • Story
  • Write

• We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Chance
  • Monarchy
  • Aristocracy