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
  • Education
  • Me

• 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

• Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Griefs

• If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Age
  • Light
  • Dark

• Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.

  

  Bruce Robinson
  • People

• I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

  

  Bruce Robinson
  • Comedy
  • Value

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

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Gossip
  • Confession
  • Malice