Cargill Gilston Knott Quotes

We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

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• Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Bad
  • House
  • Morning

• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Country
  • Love
  • Border

• My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Football
  • Player
  • Brother

• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Popular

• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Men
  • Today
  • Doubt

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  

  Sallust
  • Better
  • Fair
  • Conquer

• How can German music not be represented by an article?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • German
  • How

• One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Great
  • Free

• All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Men
  • Character
  • America

• I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

  

  Ed Case
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Value

• Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Light

• 'A Tale of Two Gardens'

  

  Octavio Paz

• Most everybody's got seed to sowIt ain't always easy for a weed to grow, oh no.So he don't hoe the row for no one.Oh for sure he's always missing.And something is never quite right.Ah, but who would want to listen to youKissing his existence good night.

  

  James Taylor
  • Good
  • Night
  • Missing

• I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Important
  • Age
  • Ethics

• I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Not a word has come out of the White House about maybe there being a structural problem in the insurance industry.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • House
  • Problem
  • Insurance

• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Stop
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Run

• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
  • Good
  • True
  • Cool

• We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

  

  Cargill Gilston Knott
  • Age
  • Vision
  • Training