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 would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• 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

• I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Happy
  • Model
  • Right

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• 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

• The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Better
  • Fix

• 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

• Between going and staying the day wavers,

  

  Octavio Paz

• 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

• I don't believe in fate.

  

  John Wooden
  • Believe
  • Fate

• People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, 'How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?'

  

  Plutarch
  • Time
  • Good
  • Die

• I am very proud of who I am and what I've been able to do and accomplish for my constituents.

  

  Jim Gray
  • Proud

• 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