Randall Jarrell Quotes

When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.

Randall Jarrell

• People

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Always
  • Young

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Man
  • Woman

• The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Want
  • Communication
  • Without

• Life is such a tragicomedy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Person
  • Lion
  • Type

• Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Men
  • Age
  • Dating

• Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Growing
  • Wise
  • Stage

• I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Trying
  • American
  • Help

• Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Rest

• I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Practice

• When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People