Clamors Quotes

#1. Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

Hal Hellman

#2. There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. To be listened to is ... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating ... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

Robert C. Murphy

#4. We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.

Edwin Markham

#6. Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

Marie Corelli

#7. It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

Alexander Crummell

#8. The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for themselves.

James F. Byrnes

#9. Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#10. The world clamors, "Do more! Be all that you can be!" But our Father whispers, "Be still and know that I am God.

Joanna Weaver

#11. Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.

Mark Buchanan

#12. And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.

Albert Camus

#13. The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

Seneca The Younger

#14. Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

Franz Grillparzer

#15. Don't confuse progress with winning.

Mary T. Barra

#16. My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

Eugene Jarecki

#17. Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself.

Angelos Michalopoulos

#18. Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail.

Ian Livingstone

#19. In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will pave the way to a new future. It is time to transform our educational system in America to embrace and nurture creativity as a core value.

Larry R. Thompson

#20. I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Diane Keaton

#21. The camera is the least important element in photography.

Julius Shulman

#22. You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

Judah Friedlander

#23. Let someone else get killed!

Joseph Heller

#24. If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'

Mickey Rooney