George Croly Quotes

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

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• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Team
  • Always

• Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Human
  • Brand

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Teach

• It's always good to be around nice-looking people.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Good
  • Nice

• I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Brother
  • New
  • New York

• People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Home
  • Environment
  • Positive

• At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Time
  • Power
  • America

• And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Want
  • Things
  • Leave

• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Truth
  • Stand
  • Discovery

• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Great
  • New
  • Ability

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • You
  • Control
  • Story

• I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Design

• Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Laughter

• A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Living

• Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.

  

  Sallust

• I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Children
  • She
  • Suffering

• All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

  

  George Croly
  • History
  • Example
  • Romance