Leslie Earl Maxwell (L. E. Maxwell) Quotes

Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.

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• I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Style
  • Now
  • Doctor

• Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Name
  • Texas
  • Beer

• I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Human

• I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happen

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eye
  • Ever
  • Public Eye

• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Why
  • Song
  • Reason

• I love a man bun.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Man
  • I Love

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Eye
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

  

  Karl Marx
  • May
  • Power

• I always had a kind of Myth of Cincinnatus idea about politics - that public service was something you do for a while in between stints at real life. And when your time is up, you return to the plow, which is hopefully still somewhere close to where you left it.

  

  Angus King
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance, and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Together
  • Today
  • Technology

• Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Success

• Life is a roller-coaster, so you never know what's gonna happen.

  

  Ray J
  • Life
  • Happen
  • Roller-Coaster

• There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Struggle

• Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Stupid
  • Development
  • Experiences

• I already am, I always was and I still have time to be

  

  Anis Mojgani
  • Stills

• Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

  

  Euripides
  • Fate
  • Necessity
  • Harsh

• Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.

  

  Leslie Earl Maxwell