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

• Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Protect
  • Fantasy
  • Nightmares

• Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • Work
  • Economic
  • Morality

• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  

  Caleb Scharf
  • Real
  • Existence
  • Answers

• I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

  

  Alfredo Stroessner

• I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I don't understand it - but I've certainly written about it.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Experience

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

  

  Charles Edward Merriam