Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Man
  • Woman

• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • God
  • Society
  • Understand

• War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • War
  • Democracy

• My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Myself

• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
  • Down

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Truth
  • Together
  • You

• I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hand

• After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Almost

• Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Action
  • Nice

• I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Experience

• I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Money

• Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Time
  • Stupid

• Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Free
  • Consequences
  • Bullying

• I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • City

• Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Power
  • Pretension