Henry St. John Quotes
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Quotes to Explore
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.
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In Europe they're more calm, more reserved. Here, in the States, people are more wild, a little more open. I guess it takes a lot to impress those people up there in Europe. Especially in London.
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Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the creative act, a link is missing. This gap which represents the inability of the artist to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal 'art coefficient', contained in the work.
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Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
