Lord Byron Quotes

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

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• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Law
  • Try
  • Forward

• I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Happy
  • Famous
  • Professional

• After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Home
  • Political
  • Oil

• And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

  

  Kesha

• It's the right idea, but not the right time.

  

  John Dalton
  • Time

• This pro football player once sent me 100 teddy bears, asking me to fly to one of his games and go to dinner. I didn't do it - it was just too weird.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Football
  • Player
  • Weird

• Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Up
  • Space

• Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels.

  

  Jacques Delille

• Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Letters

• I do believe in high, high intensity. I don't believe that there's anytime while I'm on the floor that I should be sitting down catching my breath; that doesn't make sense. There's plenty of time to rest when I'm done.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Done

• Every inch of the way, the drug has shown its safety, and each of the groups here and certainly us have been satisfied with the safety.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Way
  • Safety
  • Drug

• I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Catholic
  • Differences
  • Adults

• To go fast, row slowly.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Fast
  • Slowly
  • Row

• It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • People
  • Economy
  • Income

• Whenever Allah’s Messenger saw the rain, he used to say, O Allah! Let it be a strong fruitful rain.

  

  Aisha
  • Strong
  • Rain
  • Allah

• Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Education
  • Government
  • Evil

• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Republican
  • Tyranny
  • Despotism

• I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Time
  • Pieces
  • Shops

• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • May
  • House
  • Friend

• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Tyranny
  • Treasons