George Saville Quotes

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

George Saville

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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

• We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Word
  • Creator

• 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 no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Reason
  • Accepting
  • Rational

• He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I get by on good looks," Nick said.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Night
  • Looks
  • Forgiving

• So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

  

  Winston Groom
  • Looks
  • Happened
  • Satisfaction

• Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Worship
  • Ancient
  • Neglect

• Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Internet
  • Companies
  • Web 1.0

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

  

  George Saville
  • Reason
  • Looks
  • Sides