Lord Acton Quotes

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • See
  • Audiences

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Will
  • Taxes

• I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Law
  • Horse
  • Lawyer

• My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Help

• I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Help
  • Control
  • Support

• Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Team
  • Dinner

• Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Home
  • Stars
  • Pool

• I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Very

• The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Focus
  • Heaven

• Every word is a prejudice.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Word
  • Prejudice

• A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The ways we miss our lives are life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life

• My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

  

  Lord Acton
  • Men