Lord Acton Quotes
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.Lord Acton
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
Dan Rather -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
I seemed to have been born reading.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Ed Miliband -
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Vince Lombardi -
I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
Daniel Espinosa -
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther -
The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
Tavi Gevinson -
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Warren Buffett -
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina -
I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
Sam Huntington -
When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
Larry Fitzgerald
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold S. Geneen -
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.
William Clay Ford, Jr. -
Can you see the hand of God in your own life?
Neil L. Andersen -
It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton