Warren St. John Quotes

The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?

Warren St. John

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• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Water
  • Sound

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Childhood
  • Short
  • Homework

• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • True
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Tough
  • Big
  • Nobody

• Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.

  

  Lisa Randall

• The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

  

  Aristotle
  • Liberty
  • State
  • Democratic

• I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Good
  • Different
  • Song

• Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are the East Coast home for the MH-60Rs, and the nation's P-8A fleet and Triton operations facility are based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

  

  Ander Crenshaw
  • Home
  • Air

• It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

  

  Frank Woolley
  • Team
  • Winning

• My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Movie

• The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

  

  Pete McCloskey
  • Money
  • America
  • Party

• People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club's reputation.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • People
  • Real

• Don't forget to celebrate. When I was first coming up, everything was so serious - we were always rushing to get to the next thing - that we didn't take the time to say, 'Man, look what we did just now.'

  

  Maren Morris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Serious

• Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Good
  • Song

• It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

  

  Leo Ornstein

• I wish I could tell you every time I was on the highway and couldn’t use a restroom, my bladder is messed up because of that. Stomach is messed up from eating cold sandwiches.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • I Wish
  • Sandwiches
  • Restroom

• The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?

  

  Warren St. John
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Economic