Carroll Quigley Quotes

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

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• He who awaits much can expect little.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Expect
  • Little
  • Much

• I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Famous

• Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Good

• Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.'

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Trust

• Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

  

  Ken Auletta
  • Live
  • Forever

• We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Past

• My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Brother
  • Hipster

• The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Desire
  • Bold

• I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • People

• I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Couple

• And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Writing
  • Fun

• When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat.

  

  David Chang
  • Work

• When I do train heavy, it's typically one to two days a week, but the training I do just about on a daily basis is Pilates-based.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Training
  • Daily

• When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

  

  Martin Freeman

• Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Important
  • Society
  • Free

• Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Sun

• When it comes to sex, at my age I like threesomes. In case one of us dies.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Dies

• What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Women
  • Real
  • Movie

• There are no bad people, only badly loved people.

  

  Arnaud Desjardins
  • People
  • Bad
  • Loved

• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  

  General Butt Naked
  • People
  • Sacrifice
  • Blood

• The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

  

  Carroll Quigley