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Elihu Root Quotes

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Elihu Root

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Passion Opinion Stubborn Differences

I'm a good putter. Like good shooters, just keep shooting. I'm just going to keep putting, and they're going to start going in.

Jimmy Walker

Good Start Shooting Keep Going Just

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Joaquin Phoenix

Beautiful Walk Yourself Value People

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

Andres Iniesta

Sacrifice Win Enjoy You More

Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything.

Matthew Ashford

Life Walk Help You Clean She

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

Matthew Lesko

Government New York Book New Office

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Ana Gasteyer

Alone New York Lonely Feel You New

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Sonny Bono

Hatred Homophobic Bigot Pandering

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.

Sinead O'Connor

I Am People Me Free Believe I Can

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

Jordin Sparks

Love Man Bible Falling Expression

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

Cheryl Ladd

Tall Always OK Wanted

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

Christina Ricci

Day McDonald Three One Day Once Ate

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

Claire Tomalin

Thought Doing Seriously Standards Up