Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
Quotes to Explore
-
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
-
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
-
I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
-
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
-
I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
-
I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
-
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
-
The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
-
For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
-
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
-
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
-
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
-
When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
-
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
-
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
-
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
-
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
-
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
-
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
-
I like what Proenza Schouler is doing. I also love the Miu Miu chunky embellished shoes and really like Prada as well.
-
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
-
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
-
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
