Eileen Wilks Quotes

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Eileen Wilks

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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Football
  • Same

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mean
  • Traditions
  • Cultural

• Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Long
  • Song
  • Never

• I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Fun
  • Nice
  • Have

• A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• That is why I say the nation needs a leader. Dr. Manmohan Singh has not even visited all the states in the five years of his prime ministership, while Advaniji is a leader who has, at some point in time, spent a night in our 400 districts.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Why
  • Night

• 205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • True

• I know that many will call this useless work.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • War
  • Hero

• We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

  

  Bernice King
  • Violence

• I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.

  

  Princess Margaret
  • People
  • Breakfast

• I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Results
  • Deciding

• Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

  

  George Will
  • Believe
  • Taxes
  • Democrat

• Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Fear
  • Needs
  • Taxes