Brander Matthews Quotes

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

Brander Matthews

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• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Day
  • Opinion

• The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • History
  • Me

• Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Future
  • Effort

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Why
  • Character
  • Girl

• The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • Love
  • Learned

• No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Come

• I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Character
  • Sleep
  • Drink

• I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Life
  • Watch
  • Go

• There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Age
  • Young
  • Hard

• The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Experience
  • Drawing
  • Logic

• I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Experience
  • Special
  • Four

• Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Vices

• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Learn
  • Expectations

• Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • Dangerous
  • Example
  • Goodness

• What's up?' he said, like the church was always burning down and I always called him on a school night, telling him to come over after dark and bring a shovel.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • School
  • Night
  • Church

• Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Brander Matthews
  • Evil
  • Doubt
  • Credit