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Walter Bagehot Quotes

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Walter Bagehot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

Topics

Success Good Excellence Government

When you're climbing something as challenging as Meru, it's all about efficiency. Even a decision as small as what to eat for dinner would expend energy you need for making other, more dramatic decisions.

Jimmy Chin

Decision Dinner Small Energy You

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Life Value Feel Enough Trying You

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

Anatoly Karpov

Win Game Strategy Logic Rules Play

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Me Think Thinking Thought Stop Why

It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something.

Michael Kiwanuka

Music Shopping Guitar Someone You

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron

Alone Solitude Feeling Infinite Felt

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Johnny Knoxville

Tough Acting Mining Coal Just

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.

Dorothea Dix

Green Remember Know Soil Lovely Who

The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It's doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer's shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer's legacy.

Corey Hawkins

Justice Shoes Challenge Moment Step

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

Brian Azzarello

Always Different Interested Comics

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

Anthony Shadid

War Support Appreciate Understanding

Analysis of the composition of samples of DNA from a great variety of sources and by many investigators revealed the remarkable fact that the purine content always equals the pyrimidine content.

Arthur Kornberg

Great DNA Always Content Analysis