George W. Plunkitt Quotes

You can’t be patriotic on a salary that just keeps the wolf from the door.

George W. Plunkitt

• Patriotic
• Keeps
• Salary

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • War
  • Easy

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Father
  • Me

• Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Family
  • Were
  • Whether

• Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Picture
  • Look
  • Race

• Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Lesbian
  • Sisterhood

• I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • People
  • Political
  • Friendships

• …the cold deflation of crapula…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Cold

• Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Sick
  • Seduction

• Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.

  

  Ken Liu

• In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • School
  • Kids
  • Homeless

• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

  

  Bryan Magee
  • World
  • Real
  • Curiosity

• So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Hope

• Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.

  

  Bert Blyleven

• Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

  

  Corin Nemec

• I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

  

  Alexander Payne

• Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Struggle
  • Progress

• When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Reason
  • Talking
  • News

• It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Great
  • Men
  • Wise

• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • War
  • Feeling
  • Moral

• We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Helping
  • Catholic
  • Refuse

• You can’t be patriotic on a salary that just keeps the wolf from the door.

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Patriotic
  • Keeps
  • Salary