William Jennings Bryan Quotes

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

William Jennings Bryan

• Country
• Lying
• Sacrifice
• Greatness
• Blessing

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• I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Like
  • Historical
  • Novels

• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Appreciate

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.

  

  Cam
  • World
  • Music
  • Imagination

• I have no privacy anymore.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Privacy
  • Anymore

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Like
  • Tennis
  • Grass

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Everything
  • Vintage
  • Gucci

• My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • She
  • Think
  • Beauty

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • You
  • Principles

• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Novel

• People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

  

  Tom Snyder
  • Result
  • Voters
  • Immigrant

• I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Office

• I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.

  

  Doris Day
  • God
  • Country
  • President

• The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Country
  • Lying
  • Sacrifice