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

• 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

• 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 have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Time
  • Today

• No one tells actors anything; we're always the last people to find out.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
  • People

• 'You don't go by odds. You know what's coming. You've seen the cards already.' She studied his face intently. 'No, you can't be cold-decked. It wouldn't be possible.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • She
  • Cold

• I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

  

  Joe Baca
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• I promise you, if you will heed the voice of warning of the Holy Ghost and will follow His direction, you will be blessed with the ministering of angels, which will add wisdom, knowledge, power, and glory to your life. Remember, the Lord is bound by solemn covenant to bless our lives according to our faithfulness.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Life
  • Power
  • Remember

• Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Power
  • Pretension