Upton Sinclair Quotes

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • War
  • Boy
  • Fire

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Realize

• A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Goal
  • Leader
  • Yield

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Small
  • Me
  • Best

• Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Laughed
  • Comedies
  • Our

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue

• My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • English
  • Almost
  • Accent

• Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • World
  • Serious

• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Heart

• ....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Nature

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Funny

• Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

  

  Anjem Choudary
  • Punishment
  • Subject
  • Insults

• I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Heart