Philip Kerr Quotes

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

Philip Kerr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 22, 1956

Topics

WorldEasyYouThanksBeing

When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.

Jeff Merkley

MyselfProgressSpeakAmericaYou

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

John Ralston Saul

JobDoubtProfessionalComfortRude

I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun... or a death wish? You tell me. I was in severe pain, and everyone was laughing at me. That was great. I like when people laugh at me when I'm in pain.

Miriam Shor

GreatRideBikeDeathPainFun

Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a virtuous cycle.

Lloyd Blankfein

GrowthPeopleGrowWealthCreate

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Joshua Foer

JourneyMemorySpaceMindEyeYou

Always make your team around you feel like you are succeeding, even though you know, way down deep, it's a long shot. You have to be the fighter and the leader and the one who instills energy and hope in others.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

LeaderHopeTeamEnergyDeepYou

If people sneak into my show, that's a sign of a good show, you know? If people want to risk getting in trouble with the law to come see you play music, that's a sign you're doing something right.

Dierks Bentley

GoodMusicPeopleLawDoingYou

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

Demetri Martin

GoodStudentKidEverythingGotDid

I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

Chris Kyle

FamilyWarHardshipsTryingGoJust

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

Christopher Gadsden

HouseMatterRightsHoldColonies

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

William Glasser

QualitySchoolCompetitionLosing

In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that Saddam was fundamentally Adolf Hitler reborn. I think his feelings towards Saddam were in fact quite genuine and quite legitimately hostile. He was not play acting.

Rick Atkinson

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