George Scratchley Brown Quotes

Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.

George Scratchley Brown

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• I get depressed at airports.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Get
  • Depressed

• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Like
  • Seem

• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Working

• When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Literature

• I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

  

  Sally Field
  • Think
  • First
  • I Think

• I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Want
  • Find

• Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The regulation picture has gotten a lot clearer in the U.S. and most of Europe. And that's fantastic. I think that's why you're seeing companies like Microsoft and Dell accepting Bitcoins.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Why
  • Think
  • Picture

• Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • Because
  • Finding

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Long
  • Small

• You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Support
  • Find

• Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!' His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Up
  • Why
  • Eyes

• I know it's late, I know you're wearyI know your plans don't include meStill here we are, both of us lonelyLonging for shelter from all that we seeWhy should we worry, no one will care girlLook at the stars so far awayWe've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?We've got tonight babe,Why don't you stay?

  

  Bob Seger
  • Why
  • Worry

• I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Job
  • Father
  • Child

• Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Work
  • Women

• There is a lot of work to be done to make sure our leaders reflect the people they are supposed to represent. The more diverse a group of decision makers is, the more informed the decision will be. Until we achieve full representation, we all should understand we are falling short of the ideals of our country.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Government
  • September
  • Enterprises

• Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.

  

  George Scratchley Brown
  • Peace
  • Government
  • Affair