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

• 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

• No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

  

  Sabrina Jeffries
  • Life
  • She
  • Bad

• I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Way
  • Stop
  • Disease

• Once you learn what the disease or physical block has to teach you and finally let go of the emotional issues stored in the cells, then, and only then, can real healing begin on all levels - emotional, spiritual and physical.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Healing

• Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Choices
  • Social
  • Degrees

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

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Disease
  • Vain
  • Idiots