Thomas Holcroft Quotes

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

Thomas Holcroft

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• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • True
  • Sense
  • Equality

• Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Training

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Woman
  • Blow

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Done
  • Me
  • Early

• I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Help
  • Challenge
  • Daily

• Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Weak
  • Self-Esteem
  • Your

• Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Down

• ...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Power
  • Support
  • Party

• The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Sky
  • Leaving

• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Force

• The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Environment

• People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• Common sense is the best prophet.

  

  Euripides
  • Common Sense
  • Prophet

• Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Character

• I have butterflies in my stomach.

  

  Kristina Laferne Roberts
  • Butterfly
  • Stomach
  • Butterflies In My Stomach

• Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

  

  Thomas Holcroft
  • Evil
  • Worst
  • Inquiry