Richard Steele Quotes

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

Richard Steele

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • You
  • Understand
  • Confused

• Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Powerful
  • Voice
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• I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fashion

• Oh, so they have internet on computers now!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Internet
  • Now
  • Computers

• ...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Different
  • Wings

• The emergency funding measure cannot be short-sighted -- it cannot simply replace bullets for bullets and bombs for bombs spent in Kosovo.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Bullets
  • Emergency
  • Kosovo

• Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• This will be a team that could possibly have the ability to surprise some people.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • People
  • Team
  • Ability

• What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

  

  William James
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Natural

• Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

  

  Diogenes
  • Evil
  • Speak
  • Advised

• Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

  

  George Eliot
  • Business
  • Good Luck
  • Knocks

• Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • War
  • Change
  • Minds

• I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Endless
  • Tire
  • Sequels

• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gentleman
  • Pursuit
  • Unspeakable

• I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Kind
  • Endless
  • Playlists

• It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

  

  Richard Steele
  • Pursuit
  • Endless
  • Frivolous