Lois McMaster Quotes

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Lois McMaster

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• Military
• Police
• Security
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• Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Best
  • Educated

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Money
  • Human Rights

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
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• There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Think
  • Positive

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Know

• It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Police

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Important
  • Night

• So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Long
  • Death
  • Simple

• Sometimes I get all the credit, and it makes me feel bad because I'm not the only one out here sacrificing everything. There are people out here on the road with me with kids and families, and they're out here busting their backs for me.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Bad
  • Feel
  • Credit

• We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • World
  • Day

• I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

  

  Chuck Feeney
  • Money
  • Giving

• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Evil
  • Military