Charles Edward Merriam Quotes

p. 163 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16

Charles Edward Merriam

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• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• Everything I make starts very personally.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Everything
  • Make
  • Very

• I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Book
  • First Amendment

• Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Curiosity
  • Most
  • Permanent

• I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Children
  • Always
  • Selfish

• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Funny
  • Food
  • Wine

• I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Truth
  • Marriage

• My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Song
  • Past
  • Present

• Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Greatness

• Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Remember

• As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • World
  • Scary
  • Survival

• He marvelled again at the effect of projection: how hostile Henry had seemed to him when Patrick was hostile towards everyone; how considerate he seemed now that Patrick had no argument with him. What would it be like to stop projecting? Was it possible at all?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Stop

• I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to run,' or, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to work out a certain way.'

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Work

• My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Character
  • Preparation

• Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Attention
  • Desire

• I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Book
  • Movie

• What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Band
  • Marketing

• I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

  

  Cardi B
  • Parents

• Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Effort

• People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  

  Bert Williams
  • People
  • America
  • Song

• I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Art
  • Freedom
  • Sick

• p. 163 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16

  

  Charles Edward Merriam