Exposed Quotes

• All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

  

  George Orwell
  • Force
  • Tyrannies
  • Exclusively

• The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Death
  • Existence
  • Injustice

• I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.

  

  Ann Wagner
  • People
  • Health
  • Dialogue

• Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • Exposed
  • Exceptions

• To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Exposed

• A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Being
  • Comfortable
  • Exposed

• Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Baby
  • Doe
  • Easier

• A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.

  

  Norman Lindsay
  • Women
  • Creatures
  • Trousers

• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Virtue
  • Essence
  • Loses

• I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Church
  • Singing
  • Solo

• Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.

  

  Avicenna
  • Ocean
  • Mountains
  • Stone

• I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Humans
  • Exposed

• You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

  

  Cyrus the Great
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Actions

• An artist works through exposed wounds.

  

  Dennis Oppenheim
  • Artist
  • Wounds
  • Exposed

• There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue is, that's happening in the scene. You've got to play something rather than feel self-conscious or exposed.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Conscious

• We're not exposed to a lot of guys.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Guy
  • Exposed

• I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Exposed

• It's not that I'm using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it's that, when you're living in the world, you're exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I'm curious about those things, me personally.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • World
  • Feels

• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  

  Al Meyerhoff
  • Reality
  • Exposed
  • Toxic

• I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of it, and I definitely am. This is a fear that motivates. Oh, and heights. And getting stabbed.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Fraud
  • Height
  • Existential

• Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.

  

  George Pattison
  • Obligation
  • Buddhism
  • Mortality

• The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Interesting
  • Incredibles
  • Essentials

• When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

  

  Molly Bloom
  • Looking
  • Crowd
  • Shoulder

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