Edward Carpenter Quotes

The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.

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• 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Twitter

• It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Unique
  • Idea
  • Original

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• I enjoy seeing new places.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • Seeing

• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
  • Competitive
  • Striving

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Engineering

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • Good
  • Philosophy
  • Grammar

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • People
  • Up

• If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • May
  • Party
  • Problem

• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Catastrophe
  • Atom

• On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Environment

• Kim Kardashian was the first time I've seen a woman tormented about her weight gain while having a baby. But at least she asks for that attention by voluntarily obsessing over her weight publicly on her social media. But now nobody is safe.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Time
  • She
  • Attention

• The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • Great
  • Money
  • Society