Edmund Morris Quotes
Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals.
Quotes to Explore
-
I waited for my first kiss.
-
Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
-
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
-
One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
-
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
-
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
-
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
-
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
-
I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
-
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
-
We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
-
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
-
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
-
Tonight I won't be alone
-
Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
-
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
-
Of all the works of man I like bestThose which have been used.The copper pots with their dents and flattened edgesThe knives and forks whose wooden handlesHave been worn away by many hands: such formsSeemed to me the noblest.
-
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
-
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
-
Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.
-
Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals.
