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

• I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Moral

• All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Church

• That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Friend
  • Brain
  • Enemy

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• I wasn't a person who hated working. When I was working and training, I loved it. I loved that I had to work that hard. I think it transformed into the gym and then transformed into the octagon. It was a good thing.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Training

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

  

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