Top 33 Aronson Quotes
#1. Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing.
Michael Connelly
#2. Aronson's first law:
People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.
Elliot Aronson
#4. In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power.
Nicholson Baker
#5. Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.
Arnold Aronson
#6. Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.
Elliot Aronson
#7. My dear friend Queen Victoria, who has absolute trust in the Divine Justice and goodness, used to often say to me: "What we do not understand now, we shall understand some day- in this life or the next" Empress Eugenie
Theo Aronson
#8. May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!
D.L. Moody
#9. The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.
Elliot Aronson
#10. The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
Stephan Pastis
#11. It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.
Elliot Aronson
#12. You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
Alice Hoffman
#13. 8.
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.
William Shakespeare
#14. The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.
Bill Kovach
#15. King George V and Queen Mary had been inadequate parents. Both were shy, inhibited, inarticulate people, not given to displays of emotion or affection.
Theo Aronson
#16. I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.
Robert M. Pirsig
#18. I really feel that a big part of my job - besides getting the money - is to see to it that Woody [Allen] has what he needs to make the film that he has envisioned.
Letty Aronson
#19. People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy.
Letty Aronson
#20. He began to cry soundlessly. The tide had never gone out so far; he could see nothing but drying mudflats and those splintered pilings which cast their eternal damaged shadows. She
Stephen King
#21. But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.
Marc Aronson
#22. There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.
Walter Besant
#24. He had, in fact, cracked his knee-cap. But refusing to have a doctor
Theo Aronson
#25. People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.
Debra Wilson
#26. We'll start over. But you can't start. Only a baby can start
John Steinbeck
#27. Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.
Elliot Aronson
#28. Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.
Letty Aronson
#29. We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.
Alanis Morissette
#30. Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.
Sigurd F. Olson
#31. Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.
James Caan
#32. Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible.
Jennifer Loiske
