Edmund Morris Quotes

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Edmund Morris

• Science
• Government
• Dealing
• Mendacity

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• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
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• I'm very interested in science.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Science
  • Very
  • Interested

• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Science

• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Want
  • Government
  • Hands

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Government
  • Wife
  • Graduation

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Art
  • Science
  • Desire

• We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Government
  • Military

• In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Government
  • China
  • Improve

• I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • See
  • Crisis

• The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • True
  • Science

• Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Government

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Different
  • Valuing

• Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Mother
  • Shame
  • Blew

• The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • People

• I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Black
  • Film
  • White

• Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Science
  • Government
  • Dealing