George Pope Morris Quotes

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Monkey

• It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Diversity

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Like
  • Acting

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Faces

• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Thoughts

• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Write

• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Religion
  • Person
  • Human

• I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Many

• No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Evil
  • Choices
  • Born

• There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Choice

• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mind
  • Human

• People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • New

• That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Alone
  • Waiting
  • Baby

• Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Features
  • Wise Men
  • Felon

• I had no desire to crash a man's world.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Man
  • Desire

• To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Solitude
  • Known
  • Oneself

• Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won. But that doesn't mean we can have a devil-may-care attitude toward this threat. We must do everything to stop these threats and not give the terrorists a single chance to demonstrate their brutality and hatred of mankind.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Gay

• You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Desire
  • Learned
  • Labor