Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac D'Israeli

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• My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Parents
  • Style
  • Inspired

• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sure
  • Excellent
  • Anybody

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Nature

• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Lies

• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Remember
  • War
  • Lost

• Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Excellent
  • McDonald

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Victory

• Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Imagination
  • Lies
  • Creative

• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Why
  • Government
  • Lies

• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • See
  • Taste

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Lies
  • Criticism

• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Joy

• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Family
  • Party

• To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness - care for watching, but don't stop and interpret 'I am free,' then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mind

• Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

  

  Amy Sarig King
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Funny

• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

  

  Joseph Cook
  • Talent
  • Mediocrity
  • Outweighs

• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Live
  • Die
  • Suicide

• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Lies
  • Taste
  • Mediocrity