A. Lawrence Lowell Quotes

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

A. Lawrence Lowell

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• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Same
  • Now
  • Weight

• Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Difference
  • Privacy
  • Secrecy

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Die
  • Successful
  • Week

• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Start

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
  • Need
  • Animals

• I could have gone on flying through space forever.

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Space
  • Forever
  • Flying

• The Amen of nature is always a flower.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Flower

• Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Survival

• Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • People

• I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Life
  • World
  • Together

• I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

  

  Markus Wolf
  • Good
  • Different
  • Peace

• Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dream

• Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Life
  • Love
  • Hope

• All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Duty