Edwin Conklin Quotes

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

Edwin Conklin

• Freedom
• Goals
• Limitations
• Human Endeavor

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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.

  

  Kat Graham
  • You
  • Try
  • Afraid

• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Like
  • Being

• We run to win, not just to be in the race.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Win
  • Race
  • Run

• My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Small

• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Never
  • Say

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Father
  • Care
  • Husband

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneur

• I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Band
  • Attitude

• I'm not saying I came up with anything laughs. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, 'Look at all these gimmicks.' Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Long
  • Heart

• Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

  

  Karen Blixen

• The players had bad personal relations, and that's what led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing five to six of them off the team. They don't even talk with each other, everyone only looks after his own interest. I've never seen such people before.

  

  Zeljko Obradovic
  • People
  • Bad
  • Mistake

• The Secretary General, in a very real sense, is the servant of the General Assembly. Diminish his authority and you diminish the authority of the only body where all nations, regardless of power, are equal and sovereign. Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this Assembly.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Real
  • Power
  • Powerful

• You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Needs
  • Example
  • Potatoes

• If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Why
  • Power
  • Nature

• Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

  

  Edwin Conklin
  • Freedom
  • Goals
  • Limitations