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
  • Whether
  • Were

• 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

• One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Process
  • Social
  • Trade

• Carl Schmitt in theory is one thing; confined to a few conservatives on the right and a somewhat greater number of envious postmodernists on the left, Schmitt’s ideas have not reached the informed reading public. Schmitt’s books are destined to be confined to the political theory sem inar room for some time to come.

  

  Alan Wolfe
  • Books
  • Theory
  • Schmitt

• I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Think
  • Human
  • Profound

• I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Security

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

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Patriotic
  • Keeps
  • Salary