Les Dawson Quotes

I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

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• I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Believe
  • Myself

• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Movie
  • Want
  • You

• People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Growing
  • Poetry
  • Wall

• It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Me
  • Purpose

• Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Lie

• Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • History
  • Dating

• Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Power
  • Lived

• On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Yourself
  • Direction

• This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• I would love to go to film school.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • School
  • Love
  • Film

• We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Silent
  • Worlds
  • Spaces

• I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Flower

• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Die
  • Win
  • Jealousy

• We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up

• When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Girl

• It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.

  

  Dan Mazer
  • Want
  • Knows
  • Actors

• People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

  

  Jon Voight
  • People
  • Up

• I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

  

  Les Dawson