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 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

• Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • People
  • Trying
  • History

• Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Done
  • Kids
  • Selfish

• You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Always

• I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

  

  Charles Schumer
  • Teaching
  • Profession
  • Exalted

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

  

  Charles Edward Merriam