Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Topics

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One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

John Burnside

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I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Jeff Kinney

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One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.

Julia Holter

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I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.

Jorma Taccone

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I like to stay fit by being generally active.

Diane Kruger

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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

Donald Trump

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Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.

Boots Riley

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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

Anthony Burgess

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It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

Alfred Einstein

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The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

Pierre de Coubertin

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A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

Reuven Rivlin

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The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

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