Edmund Morris Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
-
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
-
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
-
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
-
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
-
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
-
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
-
I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
-
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
-
No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
-
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
-
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
-
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
-
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
-
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
-
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
-
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
-
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-
It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
-
Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
-
I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
-
A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?
-
My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
-
The most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.
