Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeAloneYouLeaveThingsIdea

Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The answer is fairly simple: with a smart thermal water grid.

Jens Martin Skibsted

WaterSimpleSmartEnergyHeatOur

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

John Madden

LifeFootballPeopleGameBetter

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

Matt Damon

WorkGoodJobMeThinkDown

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

TimeDarknessManLongDreamAct

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

Stephen Colbert

GreatManCollegeSmallYearFirst

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Socrates

MenDivineSoulsRighteousImmortal

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.

Tony Judt

TeacherHistoryMyselfVoiceMatter

Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.

Rob Portman

DayBetterHumanityEvery DayMaking

It is one of the sternest judgments confronting a human being after death that insofar as he is himself evil, he can see only what resembles himself because he can reproduce in his own being only the physiognomy of other evil people.

Rudolf Steiner

DeathPeopleEvilHumanSeeOwn

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

Michael Patrick King

FunnyLoveSmartPeopleLaughBad

It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.

Dolores O'Riordan

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This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

Corey Clark

TruthMeTelling The TruthJustVery

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