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.

Carroll Quigley

• Political
• Party
• Interest
• Firsts
• Able
• Expected
• Reform

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• 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

• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Good
  • House
  • Singing

• 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

• Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Party

• As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom – however your folks got here – it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'

  

  Kenny Leon
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Tyranny

• In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Money
  • Like
  • Car

• 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