George Santayana Quotes

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Integrity

• Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Great
  • Women
  • Constitution

• The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Office

• Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

  

  Ovid
  • Everything
  • Hour
  • Appointed

• The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Movie
  • Best
  • Rave

• I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Genius
  • Independence

• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream
  • Emperor

• There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Road

• A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Working on 'X Men,' I got to do a lot of flying and fighting, which was good fun.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Good
  • Men
  • Fun

• Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Time
  • Work
  • Food

• Working is a great distraction technique.

  

  Phyllis Logan
  • Great

• Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Black
  • Distance

• I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Country

• Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

  

  Gaddis Smith
  • Atmosphere
  • University
  • Influenced

• Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Community
  • Value

• Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

  

  William Bennett
  • May
  • Prove
  • Conservative

• A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

  

  George Santayana
  • Country
  • Memory
  • Madmen