Edmund Morris Quotes

Persuasion should come before force. In any case it is the availability of raw power, not the use of it, that makes for effective diplomacy.

Edmund Morris

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Believe
  • Relationship
  • Fall

• I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Myself

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Love
  • Know
  • Alone

• Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • World
  • Music
  • Emotion

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Want
  • Film
  • Albums

• You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Food
  • Winter

• In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Room

• Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Sometimes
  • Profound
  • Behinds

• It is in between your thoughts, where you will discover your greatest FLOW from Spirit.

  

  Sabrina Salerno
  • Thoughts
  • Spirit
  • Flow

• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Care
  • Criticism

• Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

  

  Euripides
  • Brave
  • Danger
  • Gleams

• So long as there are men, there will be wars.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Wars

• My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wisdom
  • Bear
  • Cloud

• Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

  

  Euclid
  • Things
  • Equal

• In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Results
  • Lead
  • Particular

• And despite promising “everything I’ve got,” President Obama either did not know how, or chose not, to use the persuasive powers of the presidency, à la Lyndon Baines Johnson, to force them to act.

  

  Bill Press
  • Force
  • President Obama
  • Presidency

• Persuasion should come before force. In any case it is the availability of raw power, not the use of it, that makes for effective diplomacy.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Force
  • Diplomacy
  • Raw