Karl Hyde Quotes

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, my writing hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

Karl Hyde

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Government
  • German

• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Family
  • Rock

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nobody

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Religions

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Know
  • Retire

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Wisdom
  • Adversity
  • Seed

• Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Character
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Substitute

• In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • May
  • New

• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Organization
  • Clear
  • Only

• But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Dog

• I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Party
  • Tea

• I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Moments

• Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Emotional
  • Intelligence
  • Accounts

• The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

  

  Nissim Ezekiel
  • Things
  • Sin
  • Saint

• Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, my writing hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

  

  Karl Hyde
  • Progress
  • Creative
  • Changed