Edmund Burke Quotes

By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

Edmund Burke

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Sports
  • Television
  • News

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Home
  • High

• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Boy

• Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • High
  • Want
  • Matter

• When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • School
  • Power
  • High

• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Bad
  • High

• I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Important
  • School
  • High

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • School
  • Experience
  • History

• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Long
  • High
  • Space

• I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Appreciate
  • Student

• I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

  

  Percy Sledge
  • School
  • She
  • Together

• I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lucky

• I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Work
  • Literature

• Music is more available than ever. It's up to people to figure out. Ultimately, it's up to the business to figure out what the business is, monetizing that.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • World
  • War

• By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • High
  • Savage