Edmund Burke Quotes

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Something

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Need
  • Information

• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for 'Galavant.' But 'Galavant' was quite a wide casting call. I wasn't recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.

  

  Mallory Jansen
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  • Family
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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Book
  • Amazing

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • You
  • Lie

• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rose

• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Job
  • Camera

• I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

  

  Calvin Harris
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  • Guy
  • Want

• My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

  

  Oliver North
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  • Mom

• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Today
  • Religious

• When you get a groove going, time flies.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Time

• The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • Family

• The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Different

• You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

  

  Mel Brooks

• What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this - that you may be able to say with the apostle Paul, before you die or meet the Lord, 'God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.'

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Thinking
  • May

• The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Wise