Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Quick

• If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers... my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Property

• Women put guys through tests all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Women
  • Tests

• I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Wise
  • Rejection
  • Depressing

• I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Business
  • Career

• I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.

  

  Lance Armstrong

• Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• So let me be your driver, let me be your driver I would love to ride you, I would love to ride you downtown Drive you so slow and easy you won't wanna put me down

  

  Chuck Berry

• I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Music
  • Christian

• If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Sick

• The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.

  

  Benny Green
  • Time
  • Together

• I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.

  

  Sia LSD

• I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

  

  David R. Ellis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• When you do things to try to help people and share things, it really comes back to you. I try to do that.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Help
  • Try

• President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

  

  Elton Gallegly
  • World
  • America
  • Strong

• Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

  

  Casar Jacobson
  • Humility
  • Greatness
  • Accepting

• The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Greatness
  • Napoleon