Michael Novak Quotes

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

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• I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Money
  • Confidence

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Different
  • Same
  • Clothes

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Watch

• I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Miami

• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Home
  • True

• 'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Judge

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Τὸ δυσσεβὲς γὰρ ἔργονμετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει,σφετέρᾳ δ' εἰκότα γέννᾳ.

  

  Aeschylus

• My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Life
  • Music

• So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. But it does lead to the suspicion that one aspect of their thought, or of their logic, can lead to these appalling conclusions.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Logic

• Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Struggle

• People are always looking for something new and something to latch on to and to back something from an early stage.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • People

• And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

  

  Claudia Cardinale
  • Movie
  • Opportunity

• How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Marketing

• In a perfect world, you make a seamless transition from one great era to the next, but that rarely happens. I've studied these things: how do you go from the Aikman-Irvin-Smith Cowboys to the next era? I'm all for continuity. I wish we could have done it that way with Bill Polian, Jim Caldwell, Peyton.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

  

  Peter M. Brant
  • Great

• (We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...

  

  Lloyd Kaufman
  • American

• The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

  

  Michael Novak
  • Truth
  • Appreciate
  • Critical