Dawson Trotman Quotes

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

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• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Look
  • Laughter
  • Unexpected

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Car
  • Golf
  • Speed

• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the piano like you wouldn't believe, and he can bowl and play basketball like you wouldn't believe.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • People
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Time
  • War
  • Enemy

• Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Struggle

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Important
  • Book

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Control

• Constantly battling with sabretooth tigers and fluid drained lighters.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain

• Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Value

• Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • Art
  • Angry

• [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Small
  • Question
  • Space

• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Decisions
  • Worst
  • Moods

• Regardless of how tough you think you are, regardless of how good you think your chin is, we're all only one connected punch away from being hurt, and you've just got to hope your chin holds up and your body holds up.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hope

• There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Superstition
  • Preserved
  • Engendered

• Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

  

  Dawson Trotman
  • Desire
  • Discipline
  • Defeat