Anthony Trollope Quotes

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Anthony Trollope

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• I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Growth
  • Economy

• Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Up
  • Way
  • You

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Light
  • Patience

• A good honest and painfull sermon.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Good

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad..

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • World
  • Sun

• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • House
  • Night
  • Black

• I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?

  

  Bono U2
  • Up
  • Water
  • Rock

• We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Live

• In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leaders develop, the more we all benefit.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Technology

• The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Character

• I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.

  

  Chris Lane

• At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Life
  • Experience

• With brain hacking experiments, I've hacked into Morgan Freeman's brain. He was the most famous and the most nerve wracking because I got really awestruck when I met him, and the moment I was introduced to him, he challenged me there and then to hack his brain.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Brain
  • Famous

• I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Heart
  • Rip

• Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Men
  • Government
  • Cases

• Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • Nature
  • Man

• I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dream
  • Dead
  • Transformation

• It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • Luxury
  • Rescue