Alexander Hume Quotes

Justice is a constant uprightness in words and in deeds.

Alexander Hume

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• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Strange
  • Analysis
  • Sight

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • College
  • Myself

• Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Real
  • Food
  • Healthy

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Gay
  • Surprise

• A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Women
  • Children
  • Trying

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• The threats to privacy in America – from our own government – seem to never end. Does Congress really think they can just stick an ‘oh-by-the-way’ provision in an obscure piece of legislation directing the FAA to clear the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our neighborhoods, and have no one notice?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • America
  • Fly

• Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Happy

• Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • May
  • Truth

• 'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • She

• Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

  

  Steve King
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Admiration

• It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• While consistently rooting against America, liberals have used a fictional event forged of their own hysteria - 'McCarthyism' - to prevent Americans from ever asking the simple question: Do liberals love their country?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Country
  • America
  • Question

• Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Imagination
  • Fantasy
  • Composition

• Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mind

• Justice is a constant uprightness in words and in deeds.

  

  Alexander Hume
  • Justice
  • Deeds
  • Constant