Edmund Morris Quotes

Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.

Edmund Morris

• Public Life
• Vulture
• Civil Servant

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• Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Time
  • Thanks
  • Clients

• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Moral

• When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.

  

  William Sanderson

• Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Rule
  • Islands

• I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.

  

  Tom Odell
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Song

• Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Reason
  • Practice
  • Theory

• In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.

  

  Aurel Stein
  • Night
  • River
  • Sanskrit

• We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Christian
  • Judge
  • Continue

• I’m one of those people who struggles to relax, even though I know it’s important for my mental health.

  

  Nicole Burnham
  • Health
  • Relax
  • Mental

• 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Children
  • Convince
  • Enterprise

• Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Hard
  • Glory
  • Strife

• Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Criticism
  • Healthy
  • Public Life

• A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Authority
  • Consequences
  • Public Life

• In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Government
  • Literature
  • Public Life

• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Conviction
  • Candidates
  • Voters

• I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Questions
  • Public Life
  • Catholics

• Entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Public Life
  • Vulture
  • Civil Servant