Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.Charles Dudley Warner
Quotes to Explore
-
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne -
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin -
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone -
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
-
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash -
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Vera Farmiga -
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
Frances Mayes -
I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
Valeria Golino -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards
-
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
Octavia E. Butler -
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
Zoe Kazan -
There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
Damian Woetzel -
'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
Sam Heughan -
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
J. Paul Getty -
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
-
And of all that passed my teeth And plunged into my ungrateful belly, Of these too nothing remained into the morning; but only this Do I still possess, what I put into my ears.
Callimachus -
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.
Maurice Strong -
I've got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook.
Bruce Vilanch -
Intelligence and infinite knowledge were not, it seemed, compatible with stable human existence.
Charles Stross -
The exception tests the rule.
Richard Feynman -
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner