Edward Joseph Young Quotes

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

Edward Joseph Young

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• If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Today
  • Jesus
  • Blue

• I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • True
  • Think
  • Democracy

• I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Eyes
  • Learning
  • Forget

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • Same
  • Try

• It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

  

  Doris Day
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Star

• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Picture

• I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • God
  • Real
  • Why

• God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Grace
  • Gods
  • Forgiving

• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Word
  • Higher
  • Wander

• The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • World
  • Religion
  • Ornaments

• To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Murder
  • Ordinary

• You are holy, great and mighty, the moon and the stars DECLARE who You are...I'm so unworthy, but still You love me, forever my heart will sing of how great You are!

  

  Phil Wickham
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Moon

• Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Dreams
  • Disease
  • Grave

• Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Disease
  • Vain
  • Idiots