Nicholas A. Basbanes Quotes

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Me
  • Support
  • More

• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Together

• When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Kids
  • Band

• Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Society

• To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Unknown

• Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Blue
  • Mercy

• Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.

  

  Andrew Johnson

• In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Reality

• As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Wish
  • Silence
  • Fight

• What I'm doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like 'Game of Thrones.' Get that balance.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Book
  • Game
  • Balance

• War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • People
  • God
  • Business

• A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

  

  Nicholas A. Basbanes
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Sickness