Stockwell Day (Stockwell Burt Day Jr.) Quotes

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Story

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mother

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
  • Conclusive

• Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Air
  • Wind

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Married
  • Morality
  • Ancestors

• To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Art
  • Remember

• With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Acting
  • Creative

• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • You
  • Possible

• It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

  

  John Foster Dulles

• Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Regret
  • Bold

• He did a great job of telling them, 'Hey, this program is not where we want it to be. But we're not making a change. And we're going into next year with this coaching staff.' It was fortunate, just for our peace of mind, that Joel was with us on the trip.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Change
  • Making
  • Coaching

• James A. Mullartey from our 1st Platoon made it back to our lines. His story: The NVA had been shooting our wounded. One came up to him, stuck a pistol in his mouth, and fired. The bullet exited the back of his throat, knocked him out and they left him for dead. He survived and when he woke up at night he started crawling to us

  

  Hal Moore
  • Story
  • Dead
  • Pistol

• It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks. The remark exactly misses the truth. The Greeks fortunately had no Bible, and this fact was both an expression and an important condition of their freedom. Homer's poems were secular, not religious, and it may be noted that they are freer from immorality and savagery than sacred books that one could mention.

  

  J. B. Bury
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Greeks

• I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

  

  Stockwell Day
  • Freedom
  • Speech
  • Comment