Arnold Lobel Quotes

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Arnold Lobel

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• It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Grandson
  • Landowner

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Great
  • Love
  • Home

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Believe
  • Free
  • You

• It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Looking

• The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Acting
  • Said
  • Awesome

• Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.

  

  Kapil Sibal

• At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Morning

• When our binoculars are focused on the dad as 'deadbeat,' it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Dad
  • Desire
  • Missing

• Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Peace

• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, & I know where the nuts are.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Night

• I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Question
  • Wonder
  • Loyalty

• For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats

• Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Player
  • Basketball

• Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Nature
  • Positive

• I want the last cheque I write to bounce.

  

  Chuck Feeney

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Age
  • Death

• What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

  

  Pericles
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  

  Emma Bonino
  • Knowledge
  • Literature

• Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

  

  Arnold Lobel
  • Knowledge
  • Place
  • Observation