Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859

Topics

PowerPeopleLawWillEnemiesLaws

Good products win out.

Jerry Della Femina

GoodWinOutProducts

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

Andreja Pejic

ParisSometimesSittingRoomModel

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

John Oliver

MeLaughYouRealizeAskJokes

Whether I ever become WWE champion in my career, I'm proud of what I've done.

Jeff Hardy

ChampionProudCareerDoneBecome

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Steve Albini

GoodCreativeThinkMusiciansResult

When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.

Tom Clancy

WarPeopleMeDoingKnowMore

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Joyce Carol Oates

PassionAuthoritySymbolsInventions

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

Jordana Brewster

SchoolHigh SchoolNowWayHigh

New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.

Brian Skerry

FoodSharksNewAnimalsWhales

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Anthony Burgess

PeaceWarWaitCareRetirementWill

If you have a vision, do something with it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

VisionYouSomething

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

Penn Jillette

TruthTimePeopleThinkYouLying

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