George William Russell Quotes

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

George William Russell

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• I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Present

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Money
  • Answer
  • Most

• My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their 'Fight Song' stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Inspired

• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Music
  • Poetry

• I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Commitment
  • Test

• Lower taxes will stimulate your own personal economy by leaving more money in your pocket to do what you want - invest, save, spend, buy a bigger house, a nicer car, and give to charity. And lower taxes also lead to more money for the government to use on those things they've promised you. It's a win-win for everyone.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • House
  • Government

• It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • America
  • Nice

• I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Why
  • Need
  • Hollywood

• I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Done
  • Feet

• A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Good
  • War
  • Fighting

• The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Great
  • Thinking

• There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Human
  • Say

• Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Democracy

• The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Hand
  • Tears
  • Kiss

• Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • People
  • Warrior
  • Defeat

• We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

  

  George William Russell
  • Hate
  • Fight
  • Defeat