Elihu Burritt Quotes

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

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• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Years

• I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Voice

• This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Hand

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Done
  • You
  • Me

• After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Money
  • Book
  • Years

• My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Dangerous

• To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Dark

• The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Time
  • May
  • Beautiful

• The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Poison
  • Liqiud

• A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Money
  • Gentleman

• I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Day

• My pregame music includes a nice little mixture. Probably a little Counting Crows, maybe some Avicii. Taylor Swift.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Music
  • Nice

• I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Pain
  • Animal

• Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

  

  Elihu Burritt
  • Music
  • Play
  • Kindness