Lears Quotes & Sayings

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today — Barbara Johnson

We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present. — T. J. Jackson Lears

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never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so. — Maggie Shayne

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray. — Brad Renfro

Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page. — T. J. Jackson Lears

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. — Benjamin Franklin

I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar. — Steve Martin

I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things. — Jack O'Brien

She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing. — Sarah Dunn

What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material. — Kevin Spacey

I had more wealth, indeed, than I had before, but was not at all the richer; for I had no more use for it than the Indians of Peru had before the Spaniards came there. — Daniel Defoe

All history is the history of unintended consequences. — T. J. Jackson Lears

Transient and Eternal
The state of the world is in flux, and every object within it is subject to change.
Concepts live outside of time and, because All Things Are Number, liberate us from it. — Frank Wilczek

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears. — J.R. Moehringer

I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!" — Josh Fox

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those. — Stanley Clarke

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets. — Roger Moore

I said it was simple. Not easy. — Dan John

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year. — Rafael Cruz

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

The word is the prettiest weapon in the world. — Andre Linke