Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Quotes

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

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• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • May
  • Community

• We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Enemy

• The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • History

• When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Past
  • Military

• The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Guy
  • Sports

• The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Country
  • Financial

• Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.

  

  Kim Dickens

• Entrepreneurship transparency, I think, is important because there are so many problems that you just have to be real about them. There are so many ways for a startup to die, so the transparency attitude is key.

  

  David Cohen
  • Important
  • Real
  • Die

• 'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Moments

• Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Great

• Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Sassy

• One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Scott King, have written the lead character I play as a fully formed man.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Character
  • King

• Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

  

  Matt Groening
  • People
  • Funny
  • Mad

• It might be rare, but there are certain moments when you really don't feel like yourself. When you are in the character so fully, it's the best feeling ever. I so love it. Even if those moments come just once a day or every other day, they are just worth it.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Moments

• The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

  

  Joan D. Vinge
  • Time

• It's not just jobs that are being lost to other countries. We are seeing whole industries vanish overseas.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Lost

• My Pleasure is my business

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Business

• By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time

• This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Speak
  • Break
  • Youth

• My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Age
  • Father

• Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

  

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
  • Age
  • Common Sense
  • Spite