Stanley Baldwin Quotes

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Stanley Baldwin

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• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Work
  • U.S.
  • Observation

• Fashion is one big family.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Big

• I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Day

• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Moment

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• I've always found the rain very calming.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Rain
  • Very

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Art
  • Quality

• History is the revelation of providence.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • History

• Selbst in den äusserlichen Gebräuchen sollte sich die Lebensart der Künstler von der Lebensart der übrigen Menschen durchaus unterscheiden. Sie sind Braminen, eine höhere Kaste, aber nicht durch Geburt sondern durch freye Selbsteinweihung geadelt.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Long

• Education is the key in so many ways.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Education

• We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Up

• If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.

  

  James Bobin
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address, protocol, and code.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Anonymous

• I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Galaxy

• People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • People
  • Why
  • Water

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last."

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Remember
  • Humanity

• Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

  

  Clint Smith
  • May
  • Action
  • Diversity

• On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.

  

  Carlos Barrios
  • Single
  • Focus
  • Competition

• My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Identity

• I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Diversity
  • Testimony