Kenneth Clark Quotes

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

Kenneth Clark

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Child
  • See

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • World
  • Strong
  • Rest

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Caring

• I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • YouTube
  • Myspace
  • Ton

• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Education
  • Day

• I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Saying

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Silver
  • Secretary
  • Empower

• I just don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Just
  • Watch
  • Lot

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Learning
  • Angry
  • Secret

• When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Identity
  • Betrayal

• All actions without love are just like dust in the air.

  

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz
  • Action
  • Air
  • Dust

• Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Action

• Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

  

  Tyler Florence
  • Time
  • Children
  • Hurt

• In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

  

  Kenneth Clark
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power