Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Quotes

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

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• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Water
  • Person

• I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Theatre

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Difference
  • More

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Mother
  • Desire
  • Myself

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Time
  • Long
  • Society

• I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • People
  • Long
  • Focus

• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Reality
  • Like
  • Corner

• Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • History
  • Wisdom

• Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Mom

• I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Think
  • Winner

• Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Good
  • May
  • Power

• The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People
  • Power
  • Hero

• There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Power

• All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Free

• There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Power
  • Security
  • Neighbours