Bentley Little Quotes

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

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• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Law
  • Circumstances
  • Rules

• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wise

• You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Career

• I find it regrettable that there are those who are trying to resurrect a filibuster even as there is clearly nothing in the record that constitutes extraordinary circumstances.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Trying
  • Circumstances
  • Resurrection

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Abstract

• The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lost

• Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.

  

  Iain Hewitson
  • Trust
  • Circumstances
  • Cooks

• Circumstances should never alter principles!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Should
  • Circumstances
  • Principles

• If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Poverty
  • Circumstances
  • Prosperity

• Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Failure
  • Circumstances

• In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Power
  • Insecurity
  • Murder

• Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Picture

• The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thoughts
  • Circumstances
  • Meeting

• Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Circumstances
  • Capacity
  • Attract

• There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Circumstances

• How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Language

• I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Book
  • Fighting
  • Doubt

• I just think that when you're coming out with a new product, you're gonna be criticized.

  

  Soulja Boy
  • New
  • Product
  • Criticized

• Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Circumstances
  • Murder
  • Rationalizations