Bernard Crick Quotes

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

Bernard Crick

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Road
  • Jamming

• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Because
  • False

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Action
  • Military
  • Terrorism

• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Time
  • Music
  • Stop

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Small

• In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Future
  • Past
  • View

• I drink therefore I am.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Drink

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Believe
  • Prime

• I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Accepting

• We played great all weekend and the kids played hard. It was a good weekend; I am proud of our team and our effort.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Team
  • Proud
  • Effort

• For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Different
  • Important
  • Long

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Create
  • Chaos
  • Revolutionary