Richard Aldington Quotes

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Richard Aldington

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• I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Realize

• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Real
  • Love

• Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Same
  • Hat

• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • You
  • Thought
  • Original

• Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Never
  • Judge
  • Clothes

• You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
  • Like
  • Audience

• We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Personal
  • Random

• For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Philosophical

• First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Star
  • Sky

• Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Action
  • Path

• It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Judge

• No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Free

• There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Sexy

• The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• If you really want to turn your health around, start juicing today.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Today
  • Health

• Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work. In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker. Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband.

  

  Wayne Mack
  • Responsibility
  • Decision
  • Husband

• I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Up
  • Question

• Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Responsibility
  • Patriotism
  • Collectives