George Meade Quotes

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

George Meade

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Players

• I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Working

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Satisfied

• I feel happy to terrify kids.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Feel

• They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Me
  • Create
  • I Can

• The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Sky

• ... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Business
  • Rock

• I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • May

• I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Fashion

• For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Success
  • Words
  • Destiny

• Global competition is about winners and losers.

  

  David Korten
  • Competition

• There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People

• Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

  

  Charlie Day
  • Time

• Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Up
  • Political
  • Attention

• In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • World
  • War
  • Mean

• I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hungry
  • Nibble

• One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Dinner

• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

  

  George Meade
  • War
  • Results
  • State