J. G. Holland Quotes

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

J. G. Holland

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• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Up
  • School
  • Comedy

• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Focused
  • Often
  • North

• It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.

  

  K. Flay
  • Like
  • Name
  • Driven

• My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Education

• A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Man
  • Die

• When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Money
  • Law

• I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sorry

• I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Real
  • May
  • She

• In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Cutting

• I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Work
  • Theatre

• Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Up
  • May
  • Picture

• People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Decision

• You don't need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It's all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

  

  Denise Crosby
  • Nice
  • Missing

• The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Despair
  • Hurts
  • Impossibility

• A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Live
  • May

• I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • House
  • Studio
  • Gear

• The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.

  

  Doug Davidson
  • Work
  • Night

• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

  

  Merle Shain
  • inspirational
  • Loving
  • Emptiness

• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Gossip
  • Confession
  • Malice