Carroll Quigley Quotes

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

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• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Fraud
  • Suspicion
  • Flavor

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

  

  Ouida
  • City
  • Gay
  • Lies

• We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.

  

  Tanith Lee

• But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Road

• Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • May
  • Deep

• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God
  • Why

• It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Passion

• The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Good
  • Writing

• Millennials don't go to rallies.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Environment
  • Military

• Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Religious

• With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Movie
  • Action

• The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Money

• If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

  

  James Hilton

• The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • Job
  • Personality

• It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • World
  • Song

• I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Star

• It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Help
  • Words
  • English

• Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

  

  David Chase
  • Art
  • True
  • Death

• In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Character
  • Film
  • Values

• Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Strong
  • Control
  • Action

• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Light
  • Revolution
  • Shining