Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Poverty
  • Teach
  • Privilege

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • You
  • Doing
  • Will

• Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Fear
  • Face
  • Just

• I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Books
  • Read
  • Buy

• The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

  

  Jim Crace
  • World

• For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Different

• The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Best
  • State
  • Anarchy

• Knowledge is power.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Mother
  • Reality
  • Kind

• Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Power
  • Reality
  • State