Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatMomentManArtistEverything

I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

Jessica Hahn

DogWalkGreenChurchGoKnew

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

John C. Maxwell

LeadershipLeaderVisionPeopleBuy

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

John Denver

PeopleGiftFeelYoungYoung People

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

Jeff Probst

YouSaidSomethingWhoEmbracing

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Michael Andretti

RacingDownDragGoingJustCart

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

GoodLeaderTrustBelieveLearn

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

Mary Oliver

GreatSchoolBetterFeelSometimes

Let me get this straight: I can't defend the military because I didn't serve. So does that mean I can't support police officers or firefighters because I've never been one? How about teachers? Can I support them since I've never taught a class before?

Mike Gallagher

PoliceSupportMePolice Officers

When it's good business to make healthier food, then it becomes sustainable.

Dean Ornish

GoodBusinessFoodSustainableMake

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

Alison Gopnik

ImprovementSameRadioTelegraph

My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.

Philip Winchester

AmericanBackHolidayBornLondon

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

Seth Shostak

FutureMountainsNewYearsWithout

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