Jack London Quotes

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

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• Go West, young man.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Man
  • Young
  • Young Man

• When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Look
  • Act

• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Year

• I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Goals

• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Scared

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• One with the law is a majority.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Law
  • Majority
  • Legal

• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Play
  • Dangerous
  • Boyfriend

• When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Story
  • Process

• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Action
  • Genius

• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Story
  • Just

• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Made
  • By The Time

• A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Good
  • Family
  • Army

• In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger. Mother

  

  Michael Baumgartner
  • Mother
  • Abortion
  • Questionnaires

• i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am walking the true road, if i am slain, then i die in the knowledge that for a brief time, at least, i was part of somethin bigger. this road has perils and i will surely die on it,but, i am not afraid to die.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Baby
  • Blessing
  • Duty

• In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Health
  • Married
  • Health care

• In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

  

  David Sedaris
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

  

  Jack London