Edmund Burke Quotes

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

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• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Voice
  • Going
  • Ice

• I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Doing
  • Shots
  • Visual

• Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Pay
  • Price
  • Advertising

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Dangerous

• Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Mind
  • Marriage
  • Adulthood

• I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Hate
  • Term
  • Philanthropist

• Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Language
  • Speak

• In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Danger

• When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Cringe

• The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Science

• Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.

  

  Albert Pike
  • God
  • History
  • Wisdom

• Is 'Cowboy Casanova' about the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys? No. I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong. I would never give him that much credit.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Guy
  • Cowboy

• So I was on the ship, with 800 lesbians. We can't get off. So much drama. 'Were you looking at her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her or her? WELL, WERE YOU?!' We all got on the same cycle.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Drama

• I've chosen a career that's quite tricky. You have such high highs and low lows, and it's outrageously inconsistent. But it is what I love, which is so rare, and I'm so grateful for that every day.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • High
  • Career

• I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

  

  Carmen Busquets
  • Father
  • Party
  • Fashion

• Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Choices
  • Looks
  • Wonderful

• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Something
  • Only
  • Originality

• I think part of the reason Trump behaves the way he behaves is that he is a walking example of projection. Whatever he's doing and whatever he thinks is happening he will accuse somebody else of. And there are examples during the campaign when he did just that, like when he called publicly on Russia to hack my personal emails. He knew they were trying to do whatever they could to discredit me with emails, so there's obviously a trail there, but I don't know that in our system we have any means of doing that.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Trump
  • Example
  • Projection

• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

  

  Edmund Burke