George Davis Herron Quotes

All that is good in civilization must be for the equal use of all, in order that each man may make his life most worthwhile to the common life and to himself.

George Davis Herron

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• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Together
  • Attention
  • Band

• Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Change

• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Hell
  • Walk

• Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Car
  • Driving
  • Living

• She turned to Gansey.'Blue,' he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey. She said, 'I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • She
  • Car
  • Blue

• I was very much aware that we still had to get safely back down the mountain again and that was quite an important factor. I really felt the most excitement when we finally got to the bottom of the mountain again and it was all behind us.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Important
  • Mountain

• My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Dad

• If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Night

• There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

  

  Dave Ramsey

• I fell in love with hip-hop a little bit late; I grew up on Another Bad Creation and Kris Kross. But my mom got me a TV in my room, and I remember seeing Biggie's 'Give Me One More Chance,' and I was like, 'Oh, this is how a house party looks!' I really, really fell in love with it when Tupac created 'Dear Mama.'

  

  Karen Civil
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Beyonce, Otis Redding, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Adele are a few of my favorites.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Wonder

• The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • World
  • American
  • America

• 'Blessing without good health is a crisis because you cannot enjoy it.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Good
  • Health

• People would be surprised to know I had a flip phone until 2015.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • People

• Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

  

  Paavo Haavikko
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Profession

• The worst of all human ailments: indecision.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Human
  • Indecision
  • Ailments

• All that is good in civilization must be for the equal use of all, in order that each man may make his life most worthwhile to the common life and to himself.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Good
  • Civilization
  • Worthwhile