Anthony Malcolm Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) Quotes
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.Anthony Malcolm Daniels
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice -
I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
Rachel Platten -
When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.
Eden Hazard -
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
Jack Nicholson -
There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
Anand Giridharadas -
People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
Edwin Morgan
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
John Lancaster Spalding -
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
Leonard Susskind -
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
Chogyam Trungpa -
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks -
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
Aristotle
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
Ernest Hemingway -
Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
Vita Sackville-West -
Build up virtue, and you master all.
Lao Tzu -
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
Moliere -
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Benjamin Rush -
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
Anthony Malcolm Daniels