La La Anthony Quotes
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.
Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.
I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.
Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.
When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.
Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.
I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.
When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.
The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.
I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.
The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.
If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.
I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.
The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.
"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.