William Allen White Quotes

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

William Allen White

• Men
• Intelligence
• Consistency
• Cherish

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• To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Say
  • Now
  • Islam

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Water

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Color
  • Beauty
  • Makeup

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Best

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Challenge
  • Doing

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Past
  • Question
  • Challenge

• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hand

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Pleasure
  • Oneself

• The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Self
  • Mystery
  • Ultimate

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Mad

• The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • American
  • War
  • Iraq

• Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

  

  William Allen White
  • Men
  • Intelligence
  • Consistency