Michael Kinsley Quotes

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Die
  • Craft

• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hawaii

• A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Energy

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Die

• Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Suffering
  • Medicine

• I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

  

  Bruno Tonioli
  • Time
  • Paper
  • Starting

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Playing

• Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

  

  Pietro Mascagni
  • Dangerous
  • Narcotics
  • Modern Music

• The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

  

  Bruno Walter
  • Spiritual
  • Rhythm
  • Domain

• A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Free
  • Acting
  • Affairs

• The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Judgment
  • Satisfied
  • Reformers

• A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Reality
  • Memories
  • Summer

• The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Danger
  • Minutes

• The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Painter
  • Scholar

• Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Time
  • Risk

• When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Laws
  • Understood
  • Grievance

• If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

  

  Michael Kinsley
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