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 -
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
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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 -
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
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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 -
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
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
Karl Liebknecht -
It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
Benazir Bhutto -
The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
C. S. Lewis -
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton