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

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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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
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• 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

• Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Home
  • Care
  • Military

• 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

• Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Worship

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Jesus
  • Spirit
  • Names

• 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