Michael Ignatieff Quotes

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

Michael Ignatieff

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• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Hope
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Lose

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Want
  • Government

• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Worth
  • Dime

• I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Done
  • Hate

• Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Today

• The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

  

  Peter Abelard
  • Life
  • Men
  • Scripture

• Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.

  

  David Slade
  • Monster

• I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Writing
  • Wish

• I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

  

  Benjamin David Goodman
  • Remember
  • Stop
  • Band

• Character is our destiny.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Character
  • Destiny

• It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

  

  Ernest A. Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Believe
  • Happiness

• The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Virtue
  • Ever
  • Sciences

• In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Live
  • Health
  • Wisdom

• There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Up
  • Wisdom

• The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • Wisdom
  • Virtue
  • Canada