Algernon Sidney Quotes

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• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Two
  • Editors
  • Review

• The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Home
  • Book
  • Morning

• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Will
  • Strength

• I read everything and anything. I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • Everything

• All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Performance

• Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Honest

• When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Painting
  • New York

• Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • First
  • Congress

• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Community
  • Dad

• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Devil
  • Him
  • Prepare

• I think theater is a core need of a community.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Think
  • Community
  • Need

• Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

  

  Orville Wright
  • Years
  • Discover
  • Secrets

• I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Career

• Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• It has amazed me in the past to see people lose their way when they allow their hairdresser, whose own world is a catastrophe, to become their counselor. Nothing against hairdressers, but the same can be said of unchurched colleagues and neighbors. Sharing your woes with people whose own lives don't line up with the will of God can lead to bad advice and poor choices. Look for the people in your life who love you and love God wnd clearly want what's best for you, with no agendas or strings attrached.

  

  Brian Houston
  • People
  • World
  • Catastrophe

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney