Charles G. Dawes (Charles Gates Dawes) Quotes

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

Charles G. Dawes

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• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Evidence

• One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Character
  • Think
  • Easy

• It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Act

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Easy

• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Up
  • Special

• California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • California
  • Hell

• My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Route

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Career
  • Easy

• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Always
  • Brain

• I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • You
  • Easy

• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Brain
  • Win
  • Threat

• It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Problem
  • Easy
  • Company

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• When you start early, and you're writing for free, there's a lot of producers that will take advantage of you... It is seared in my brain forever.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Brain

• The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.

  

  Peter Murphy Bauhaus
  • Beautiful
  • Brain
  • Modern

• To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Country
  • Political

• It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Time
  • Evil
  • Religious

• Will darted back to the gutter, and picked up the knife, and the fight was over. The young man, cut and battered, clambered up the step, and saw Will standing above him holding the knife; he stared with a sickly anger and then turned and fled.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Up

• American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

  

  Charles G. Dawes
  • Brain
  • Easy
  • Hell