George Saville Quotes

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

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• We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Help
  • Reason
  • Feel

• Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Looks
  • Insecurities
  • Pour

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Always

• Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Forget
  • Will
  • Sides

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • America
  • Age

• My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Looks

• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Leader

• This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Why
  • Reason

• I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Face

• [Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • World
  • Experience
  • Looks

• I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Looks
  • Essence

• Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.

  

  Umar
  • Looks
  • Speech
  • Fooled

• I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Looks
  • Internet

• If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • God
  • Evil
  • Reason

• Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Acting
  • Life is
  • Valuing

• People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • People
  • Energy
  • Water

• Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Support

• Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

  

  George Saville
  • Reason
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