George William Curtis Quotes

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

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• Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Future
  • Rap
  • Group

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Success
  • Struggle

• What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Art
  • Me

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Poverty
  • Circumstances
  • Came

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Profound
  • Take
  • Express

• I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Thought

• I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Family
  • Think
  • Sister

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Vision

• I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Organization

• Nice guys finish last.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Nice

• I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

  

  Bindi Irwin

• I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Time
  • Books
  • Bored

• Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Judge
  • Conscience
  • Doctrine

• You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Policy
  • Result
  • Prime Minister

• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

  

  George William Curtis
  • Wisdom
  • Books
  • Accumulated