Alexandra Petri Quotes

In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

Alexandra Petri

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• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • True
  • Hope
  • Leader

• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I want to be judged on my own merits.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Price

• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Food
  • Yourself
  • Away

• I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Blow

• Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Past
  • Air
  • See

• I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • House
  • Play

• My worry is to try to improve my players, to work with them, to find the best solution for the club, and to give satisfaction to the fans because they deserve the best.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Worry

• A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Beautiful
  • Deep

• People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.

  

  Chuck Schumer
  • People

• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Society

• In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Good
  • Society
  • Law