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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Abuse

• A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

  

  Mario Monicelli
  • Comedy
  • Italian
  • Bitter

• Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Art

• The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • English
  • German

• Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Father

• I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Wonder

• Honestly, I couldn’t remember the last time I asked God to fill me with joy. Or to create a joyful spirit in my children. Goodness knows I’ve asked for peace and sanity and obedience. I’ve prayed for healing and wisdom. I’ve worshiped the Lord and studied His Word. But joy? How in the world did I forget about the beautiful, good, and pleasing gift of joy?

  

  Angela Thomas
  • Joy
  • Wisdom
  • Healing

• I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

  

  Petra Nemcova
  • People
  • Teacher
  • Speak

• Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Pain

• 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