Andrew Barrett Quotes

Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.

Andrew Barrett

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• Civility

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Long
  • Imperialism

• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Long
  • Song
  • Never

• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Man
  • Woman

• Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Know
  • Wind
  • Sailing

• My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Why
  • Help
  • Philosophy

• You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for. I reject the idea that I have to take all the costumes and makeup off to be f - king authentic.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • King

• A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Men
  • Crime
  • Excuse

• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fear

• Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.

  

  Andrew Barrett
  • Fear
  • Disaster
  • Civility