Edmund Burke Quotes

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SocietyNewNeverPreachingGospel

I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.

Joe Morton

VillainWorldThinkBetterDoing

When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm from Texas, and to see so many people that are obese and with disorders that are preventable. They haven't been shown or told. I'm really passionate about making sure my fellow countrymen are healthy. It's a shame.

Mehcad Brooks

TimePeopleMeEnergyTexasHealthy

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

Jeff Koons

ArtTrustAcceptanceMeSelfYou

I don't remember doing more than one take for a film.

Sridevi

DoingRememberMoreTakeFilmThan

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

Tom Stoppard

InterestingEasyYouSayDirector

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

DemocracySeedsWithinOwnRepublic

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.

Miguel Cabrera

GreatBestPersonWantGreat Person

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

Michael Pitt

WordsPreciousGetOftenDirectors

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Michael Korda

AmbitionWorthHypocrisyPoundOunce

The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

Diogo Morgado

BestPeopleStoryMostGets

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

David Walton

WorkGoodYourselfStartNameWeird

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley

PeopleThinkingMechanicalImagine

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