James Anthony Froude Quotes

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 23, 1818 - October 20, 1894

Topics

DeathManAnimalsNeverWildOnly

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

Jerry Lewis

WomanMeWorldThinkComedyDoing

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

Jennifer Granholm

LiveExperienceSpaceWorldSomeone

I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.

Andrea Riseborough

ThinkFeelDoingEnjoyYouOut

As far as characters that are written as Muslims, we're only seeing one dimension. It's either the good Muslim who is helping the FBI, or the taxi driver-terrorist bundled in one.

Maysoon Zayid

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What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

John Shelby Spong

PeopleWorldYouWantStability

Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.

John T. Chambers

ChangeEnvironmentThriveCapable

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

Shirley Manson

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My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.

Liu Wen

LiveHumbleSimpleParentsPeople

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Jonathan Krohn

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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

Dick Cavett

StarsDailyMyselfPeopleWriting

I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

Donald Ray Pollock

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