Elizabeth Flock Quotes

Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government.

Elizabeth Flock

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• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Everything
  • Himself

• As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • War
  • Want
  • Face

• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Moving

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Divine
  • Works
  • Slaves

• If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Child

• I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• 'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.

  

  Ram Charan
  • High
  • Career
  • Song

• A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Man
  • Die

• I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.

  

  Felicia Hemans

• My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Life

• So high, so low, so many things to know.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • High

• The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Nature
  • Popular

• For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Interesting
  • Passion

• Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • School
  • Character
  • Professional

• The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Important
  • School
  • Achievement

• In 1982, fellow film student Amanda Richardson and I went to Greenham Common for the day - to see what was going on and to shoot some video. The day turned into a weekend, the weekend into seven months, and the dozens of hours of footage turned into a film - 'Carry Greenham Home.'

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Home
  • Weekend

• If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Music
  • Free

• The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heart
  • Vanity
  • Man Of Life

• Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

  

  Piers Corbyn
  • Die

• You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

  

  Scott Spencer
  • You
  • Myself
  • Person

• Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government.

  

  Elizabeth Flock