Lord Acton Quotes

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

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• I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Young
  • First
  • Very

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • King
  • Lonely

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Job
  • Health

• I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Fight
  • Try

• The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Reality

• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Education
  • Immigration
  • Laws

• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Human
  • Creativity
  • Heritage

• Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Child

• I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.

  

  Kajol
  • Mood
  • Nasty
  • Goddess

• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Baby
  • Innovation
  • Clothes

• They say music can alter moods and talk to you. Well, can it load a gun up for you and cock it too? If it can, then the next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge that it was my fault, and I'll get sued!

  

  Eminem
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Money
  • Together
  • Evil

• Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • God

• Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Life
  • Up

• Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Society

• It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Work
  • God
  • Friendship

• I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

  

  Abby Sunderland
  • Faith
  • Wiser
  • Resilient

• Showy displays of love don't come naturally to everyone. They don't come naturally to me. They also come with a risk: a risk of rejection, being made to feel silly, or making yourself into a spectacle.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Risk
  • Silly
  • Rejection

• It was fun working with Will Smith; it was fun working with Alex Proyas, who is another sci-fi guy with 'Dark City.'

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • City

• France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and Gérard Depardieu and many others left the country.

  

  T.R. Reid
  • World
  • Country
  • Champion

• The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

  

  Lord Acton