Charles Edward Merriam Quotes

p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16

Charles Edward Merriam

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• The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Security
  • Very

• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Great
  • Different
  • Art

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Half
  • Attended

• I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Up
  • Game
  • Team

• I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Enough

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Truth
  • Together
  • You

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Up
  • Law
  • Service

• Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Body

• It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Old

• It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Silence

• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • May
  • Die

• There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • May
  • Single

• Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • World
  • Long
  • City

• Rosemary was only a spinster in the strict sense of denotation. She was eminently, eminently nubile.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • She

• Chances have been taken, opportunities granted, and because of such, I find myself in a position where some of my biggest dreams are in arm's reach.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Taken

• Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Years
  • Lives
  • Measured

• I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• My father, Kaneki, was a gifted research director of a chemical company, and his profession strongly influenced the path of my life.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • Father
  • Company
  • Research

• And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.

  

  Franco Harris

• p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16

  

  Charles Edward Merriam