Bernard Crick Quotes
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Quotes to Explore
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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I'm a fan of Bill Hicks. He did things that no other stand up did at the time. He was making fun of religion, at that time it was a lot harder to say those things in the States than it was here. To slag off Christianity and fundamentalist Christians, and to be pro drugs and anti gun in the deep south, that's a big ask. And he did that and made it funny. Bill Hicks was able to say things that he really thought, and he managed to make those thoughts funny without a care if it antagonised people.
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The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
