Samuel Schmid Quotes

The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.

Samuel Schmid

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Hands
  • Starting
  • Filmmaking

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Balance
  • Look
  • Economic

• Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Play
  • Mozart

• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Action
  • Speak
  • Twilight

• In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • World
  • History
  • Change

• Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Why
  • Science
  • Learn

• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Loss
  • China
  • Software

• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Fiction
  • Short
  • Experiments

• I don't know if a government bailout will rescue America's auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • America
  • Stop
  • Government

• As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Hugging

• If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Life
  • Up
  • Change

• I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Know
  • See
  • Questions

• I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Man

• In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to - you need to have incentives.

  

  Vitalik Buterin
  • Need
  • Security
  • Database

• Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Horror
  • Regard
  • Tension

• Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Sleep
  • Sometimes
  • Befalls

• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  

  Paul Harvey
  • Always
  • Times
  • Recall

• The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.

  

  Samuel Schmid
  • Liberty
  • Security
  • Regard