Edmund Burke Quotes

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797

Topics

GoodFoundationBrainyOrderThings

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

Jim Yong Kim

ChangeChange The WorldI AmPeople

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

Joan Rivers

FriendshipBusinessPeopleThinkYou

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

Jerry Bruckheimer

CelebrateWorryLookBackAlways

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

PowerPower CorruptsExpectation

I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun.

Rob Lowe

MusicFunEnergyHouseGoDogs

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Roy Jenkins

GreatTogetherPoliticsPresentWill

Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.

Michael Ritchie

TableLos AngelesAlwaysUsBeen

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

Diana Wynne Jones

PeopleStrongGeniusEncouragement

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.

Dorothy Dandridge

MePersonOthersCheersHearWhile

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

William H. Macy

WorkQuarterPaidGetHarderThan

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

Noam Chomsky

LeaderYouthMoreJewishRightsWho

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

Richard Greenberg

BeginningMeEndMomentsPlayWay

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