Alfred Lansing Quotes

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

Alfred Lansing

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• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Enjoy
  • Situation
  • Kid

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Creative
  • Media
  • Become

• I really wanted to be a writer.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Really

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • City
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Myself
  • Successful
  • Lucky

• There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Young

• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Me
  • Listening

• Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Intellectual

• The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Good
  • Healthy
  • Conservative

• I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Daddy

• Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Mood

• I have a boutique in L.A. and travel there frequently. My visits always put me in a good mood. Maybe it's all the sunshine. I could totally live in L.A.

  

  Monika Chiang
  • Mood
  • Sunshine
  • Totally

• My favorite food is hot Cheetos. I could eat those every day.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • Food

• Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Movie
  • Stuff
  • Script

• Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Up

• Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Mood
  • Characteristic
  • Purposeful