Charles A. Murray (Charles Alan Murray) Quotes

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Charles A. Murray

• Poor
• Policy
• Cost
• Century
• Late

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Go

• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Political
  • Become

• I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Talking

• I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Job
  • Day
  • Thought

• People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Work
  • Running
  • Week

• The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Me
  • Democracy

• Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Free

• Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Important
  • Stop
  • Day

• I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Politician
  • Chief
  • Minister

• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Action
  • Little
  • Shooting

• I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Very
  • Bed
  • Early

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • War

• Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Men
  • Women

• Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Behavior
  • Behaviour
  • Virtuous

• After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Comedy
  • Actors

• This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Men
  • Honest

• My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Why
  • Birth
  • Cost

• Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Law
  • Policy
  • Civil Government

• The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Poor
  • Policy
  • Cost