Christopher Logue Quotes

And he who is forever talking about enemies. Is himself the enemy!

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Community
  • Action

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Education
  • Connection
  • Healthy

• My witness is the empty sky.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Witness

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Military
  • Gay

• The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Black
  • Government

• When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Skateboarding

• Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Paris
  • Dinner
  • Lunch

• I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Peace

• On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Past
  • Walking

• Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Art
  • Sex
  • Enemy

• We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Eyes
  • Model
  • Ceiling

• Before Turner there was no fog in London.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • London
  • Fog
  • Turner

• Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

  

  Joanne Rowling

• If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Enemies
  • Injury

• Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemies
  • Opinions
  • Failed

• I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Enemies
  • Worms
  • Munich

• Bless my enemies, O Lord, even I bless them and do not curse them.

  

  Nikolaj Velimirovic
  • Enemies
  • Curse
  • Bless

• And he who is forever talking about enemies. Is himself the enemy!

  

  Christopher Logue
  • Talking
  • Enemies
  • Himself