William Graham Sumner Quotes

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

William Graham Sumner

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Writing
  • Color

• On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• I never said half the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Said
  • Half

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Care

• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• I just lost interest in performing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Lost
  • Interest
  • Just

• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Friend
  • Trust
  • Dark

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Marketing
  • Mouth

• I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Inspiration
  • Cooking
  • Chefs

• I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Always
  • Born
  • Conservative

• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Treasures
  • Liberty
  • Authority

• As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Sacrifice
  • Mankind
  • Duty

• Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Weekend

• Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Stupid
  • Sound
  • Entrepreneurial

• We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Effort
  • Sacrifice
  • Liberty