Alistair Horne Quotes

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

Alistair Horne

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• The want of money is the root of all evil.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Want
  • Evil

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Act

• All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Important
  • Live

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

  

  Flume
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Start

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Help
  • Future
  • Small

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Different
  • Yourself

• What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Culture
  • Desire
  • Marriage

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • English
  • Understand
  • Learned

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.

  

  Nick Sagan
  • Fiction
  • Genre
  • Nostalgia

• When filming for 'Beowulf,' we were close to Hadrian's Wall; there was no phone signal, and the scenery was spectacular.

  

  David Harewood
  • Wall

• There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • Writing
  • Personality
  • Honesty

• The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Spirit
  • Independent
  • Liberty

• Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Independent