William Hurrell Mallock Quotes

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

William Hurrell Mallock

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• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Song
  • Listening

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Plan
  • Defeat
  • Early

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Good
  • Work
  • Home

• With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

  

  Irving Harper
  • World
  • Choices
  • Limits

• Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • U.S.
  • Cowards
  • Fatigue

• I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Home
  • Night
  • Dance

• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Think
  • Impossible
  • More

• Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Fear

• Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Attention
  • Understanding

• Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Real

• Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Perseverance

• For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Important
  • Free
  • Opportunity

• You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Men
  • Kind

• It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Opinion
  • Philosophy
  • Heroism

• To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.

  

  David E. Cooper
  • Want
  • Knows
  • Being

• America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • America
  • Policy
  • Remains

• If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Opinion
  • Being
  • Honest