Harold MacMillan Quotes

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold MacMillan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986

Topics

TraditionLivingDeadMeanMeans

Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

Jim Toomey

GreatStoryEasySeeingWhiteShark

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

John Breaux

HopePoliticsTeamStartThinking

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Andre Leon Talley

MoneyYouCleaningMoviesWhyDry

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

Meg Wolitzer

MindGrowing UpWritingYoungAlways

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

HappinessTruthGreatManRoadSeek

I'm not somebody who throws myself out in front of things.

Michael Corbat

MyselfOutThingsSomebodyWho

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Steven Pressfield

WorkChangePowerMomentDestiny

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Russell Wilson

FootballTalentPeopleMeBelieve

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Demian Bichir

LifeGoodTrustLiePeopleBad

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Dennis Brown

BrownChosenLikeFewThenRecorded

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

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