Carroll Quigley Quotes

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

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• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Justice

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Breathe

• I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Grow Up

• There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• 'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Myself
  • Scary
  • Down

• For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Blessed
  • Jump
  • Bold

• How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Up

• The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Envy

• The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

  

  Don Meredith

• I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Up
  • Kids

• I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.

  

  Danny McBride
  • Drama

• There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Lost

• I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

  

  Elliot Cowan
  • Life
  • World
  • Theatre

• By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Believe
  • Optimistic

• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Political

• Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the moon, comets, and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the moon, and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Country
  • Space
  • Moon

• I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Brother

• I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • School
  • Age
  • Heaven

• When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Political
  • Party
  • Interest