Elihu Root Quotes

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

Elihu Root

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 15, 1845 - February 7, 1937

Topics

CountryWrongListenRightSeekOwn

If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.

Joe Kaeser

BusinessSocietyYouImprove

In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.

Robert Lepage

PeopleDoneAlwaysEverythingRoom

Anyone who has not accepted Jesus, I want to be your brothers and sisters, too.

Robert J. Bentley

WantWhoYourBrothersAcceptedToo

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

Tom Waits

GoodYouPlaceKnowHowAny

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

ChangeWomenWomanMeBackChoice

Every character when born is a stereotype.

Michael Patrick King

CharacterBornStereotypeEvery

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Joseph Epstein

I AmTrumanAmHeterosexualCapote

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss

ImaginationBrainNonsenseUpCells

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Christopher Hitchens

GoodNowhereGuaranteeEvenConduct

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Constance Baker Motley

MyselfSchoolLawHigh SchoolLegal

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

Clive Owen

PeopleFortunateBeenVeryHad

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

Ariel Pink

ConfidenceHumbleThinkShortEarly

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