Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

Carl L. Becker

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mom
  • Computer
  • Tough

• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Me

• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Study
  • Mankind

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Today
  • Know
  • Hunting

• Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Single

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Success

• As much as I'd only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that - a business - and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Business

• I used to overpack a lot and sometimes even forgot vital pieces of clothing, such as my swimming shorts and sandals. I'm much better now. I only take what I know I'm going to wear or use and always double-check my suitcase so I don't have to rush to the nearest clothing store when I unpack at the hotel.

  

  Jean Reno
  • Swimming

• People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People

• When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Time
  • Hand

• I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • Time
  • Book

• There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • People
  • Heaven

• The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • May
  • Success

• A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Women
  • Man

• I saw a feeding about a lion for plants, I saw leaves of luxuriant growth. I saw a branch with equal blossoms. Did I not see a prince? most liberal his customs, I saw the ruler of Cathraeth beyond the plains Be my oak the gleaming spirit of the Cymry.

  

  Taliesin
  • Growth
  • Prince
  • Lion

• Oftentimes you find partnerships or there might be companies or conglomerates and there's no real partnership. There's no real marriage. Partnership requires that, it requires two people putting their arms around each other, or two sets of ideas, wrapping their arms around each other and saying we believe in the same thing.

  

  Saint Jhn
  • Ideas
  • Marriage
  • Partnership

• Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Book