Arthur Alfred Lynch Quotes
Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.Arthur Alfred Lynch
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
Ferdinand Mount -
Happiness is an inside job.
Edd Byrnes -
People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
Victoria Pendleton -
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
Marat Safin -
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
Karel Capek -
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
Maajid Nawaz
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Bring out the eyes.
Vidal Sassoon -
You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
G-Eazy -
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
Ted Turner -
I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.
Gavin O'Connor -
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
R. Kelly -
I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
Ioan Gruffudd
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
Eddie Marsan -
When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
Bebe Rexha -
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
O. Henry -
He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
Daniel Defoe -
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham -
In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
Natasha Lyonne
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson -
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
Alex North -
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton -
I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell.
Aristotle -
Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.
Arthur Alfred Lynch