Neill F. Marriott (Neill Foote Marriott) Quotes

With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.

Neill F. Marriott

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• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Path
  • Follow

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• I only seem to date younger women.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Women
  • Only
  • Date

• I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Up
  • Cinema
  • Watching

• I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Dance
  • Gun

• It's kind of good to do things while you're young.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Young

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.

  

  Sallust

• Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Why
  • She
  • Power

• Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Aunt
  • Elephant

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men

• About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Your mind is nirvana.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind

• When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Mind
  • Team
  • Inspired

• I took opportunities, big or small, to show that I was a constant professional. I feel like the Sam Jackson of network TV drama.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Small
  • Drama
  • Professional

• I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • War
  • Energy

• With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.

  

  Neill F. Marriott
  • Power
  • Light
  • Darkness