Malachy McCourt Quotes

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

Malachy McCourt

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• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Honest
  • Seek
  • Number

• Many people think that being a graphic designer means going to an expensive art school and buying expensive software that will cost you thousands of dollars. This is so far from the truth. There are hundreds of online education centers that offer top-notch graphic design training.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • School
  • Art

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Remember
  • Hard
  • Drunk

• If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Culture
  • You
  • Military

• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Feel
  • Force
  • Novel

• That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Action

• My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

  

  Randall Park
  • Hope
  • Door
  • Boat

• I like retirement.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Like
  • Retirement

• Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

  

  Barry Switzer
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Home
  • Research
  • Waves

• I'm very, very blessed.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Blessed
  • Very

• The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Place

• One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • World
  • May
  • Free

• Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • End

• High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.

  

  Barry Lam
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Family
  • Football
  • Now

• It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

  

  Michael East
  • Training
  • Born
  • Something

• That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Wonderful Thing

• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  

  Alexander Brome
  • Life
  • Art
  • Lost

• I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Faith
  • Humor
  • I Love

• The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Human being
  • Court
  • Corporations