David Jenkins Quotes

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

David Jenkins

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• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Society

• There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Together
  • Myself

• In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • English

• The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Chess

• I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Always
  • Playing
  • Drunk

• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Dream
  • City
  • Girlfriend

• There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Women
  • Today

• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Author

• Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • You
  • Space
  • Short

• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Boy

• I refute it thus.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Death
  • Reading
  • Heaven

• Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • May
  • Faith
  • Lost

• Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Rebel

• 'Why,' said another, 'Some there are who tell Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell The luckless Pots he marr'd in making - Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Good
  • Why

• Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • People

• I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Respect

• A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • People
  • Society
  • Principles

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.

  

  Livy
  • Men

• Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Great
  • Promise

• Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

  

  Phil Klay
  • American
  • War
  • Serious

• Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

  

  David Jenkins
  • Society
  • Understanding
  • Reflected