William McChesney Martin Quotes

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

William McChesney Martin

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• We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Struggle

• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Up
  • Pride
  • Judge

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • History
  • City

• Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Real
  • Ignore

• The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Style
  • Tradition
  • Him

• I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • She
  • Remember
  • Want

• If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I

  

  Diana Ross
  • Music
  • Together
  • Dream

• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Light
  • Photography
  • Photographer

• And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Power
  • Together

• Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Song
  • Baby
  • Love You

• Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Humans
  • Boundaries

• Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.

  

  Kabir
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Wise

• The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

  

  Confucius
  • Master
  • Prejudice
  • Egoism

• I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!

  

  Edward Leedskalnin
  • Secrets
  • Pyramids
  • Blocks

• Do something good for yourself today. You matter.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Today
  • Matter

• Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

  

  William McChesney Martin
  • Prejudice
  • Spread
  • Incidents