J. G. Holland Quotes

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

J. G. Holland

• Good
• Men
• Power
• Criticism
• Blow

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • High
  • Way
  • Foolish

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Loved
  • Living

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grim

• I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Writer
  • Sure

• Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Want
  • Feel Good

• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Stronger

• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Moment
  • Memorable
  • Boston

• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Expression

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Proud

• If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • You
  • Forgotten
  • Frozen

• I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• No, I've never moved on with a play. I did the original 'Closer' in London but didn't transfer to the West End or Broadway with it. The same is true of 'Iceman': I didn't go to the Old Vic or Broadway with that. I don't know; I feel an allegiance often to the play where you do it first, in the theatre that it's in; you do it for that space.

  

  Mark Strong
  • True
  • Space
  • Theatre

• My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hockey

• I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mind

• Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Good
  • Men
  • Power