Top 100 Gladstone's Quotes
#1. In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.
George F. Will
#2. I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months.
Sufe Bradshaw
#3. But music didn't make my mother nervous. She was more concerned about the agenda of women who thought it was a good idea to wear pastel, shoulder-padded suits while they all marched single file toward a better tomorrow.
Wayne Gladstone
#4. And she accepted the bridge date from the tentacled horror, with the proviso that her schedule would be inflexible for the next several weeks. Up
Max Gladstone
#9. You were a warrior, you are a warrior, you will always be a warrior!
Jerry Gladstone
#11. Contract for Services Rendered, Alt Coulumb Kos Everburning to Royal Iskari Navy," she translated. "Since the common names are all the same, each contract needs a unique reference so we can tell which one we're talking about.
Max Gladstone
#12. It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone
#13. The brain shuts down, and the soul watches from a distance as the body tumbles at ever-increasing speed toward doom. This is because, though instinct is good at many things, it's stupid about death.
Max Gladstone
#14. Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
William E. Gladstone
#15. From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
William E. Gladstone
#16. If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli
#17. Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them.
William E. Gladstone
#18. Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.
William E. Gladstone
#20. We all think we're on our own side, until the time comes to declare war.
Max Gladstone
#21. Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
William E. Gladstone
#22. I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
William E. Gladstone
#23. The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
William E. Gladstone
#24. A beast sacred and profane bore him north, with a beautiful, terrifying woman, to defend a city wonderful in its horrors.
Max Gladstone
#25. I stare at the flush two blankets bring to her cheek and try to divine her dreams.
Wayne Gladstone
#26. Visionaries are hyper-focused to make sure there dreams come through. Be a visionary!
Jerry Gladstone
#27. Well, reading Twitter's a lot like staring at an ant farm," Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. "Except without all the productivity.
Wayne Gladstone
#29. Be careful. As if something's going to jump us in a library."
"You might be surprised."
"What do you mean?"
"You know how people say a book is really gripping?"
"Don't tell me ... " Cat trailed off.
"Libraries can be dangerous.
Max Gladstone
#30. Who should open the door of success for you...you that's who!
Jerry Gladstone
#31. And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb.
Max Gladstone
#33. Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time
the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods.
Max Gladstone
#34. What's the weather like outside?" I asked. "I don't know. May? It's May out.
Wayne Gladstone
#35. It's art. If you're looking at it, it's working.
Max Gladstone
#36. We're occupied. We don't tak about it that way, but we are.
We're not occupied. We're a world city. There's a difference.
Are you sure?
Max Gladstone
#37. His voice almost undid her. It was exactly as she remembered from school, casual, familiar, polite. Not arrogant, because arrogance implied one had to establish one's superiority. Denovo's voice assumed it.
Max Gladstone
#38. What would your life look like without today's obstacles in front of you?
Jerry Gladstone
#39. Humans need to dream, you know. It's how the mind breathes.
Max Gladstone
#40. As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
William E. Gladstone
#41. as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: "Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones.
Brooke Gladstone
#42. Losing the Internet has forced them to interact verbally instead of microblogging their lives, but a lot of them still talk in Tweets:
"Ugh! I'm standing in line at the post office."
"I'm not eating the crusts on my sandwich because apparently I'm five.
Wayne Gladstone
#43. I've gone from manager to knight in two days. I think I deserve a bump in salary.
Max Gladstone
#44. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
William E. Gladstone
#46. My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
William E. Gladstone
#47. I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
William E. Gladstone
#48. I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
William E. Gladstone
#49. their heads cut off and nailed to posts. Jack Gladstone is
Dwayne Wong
#50. Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara's bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child's face. After
Max Gladstone
#51. What can we do in the face of fear? What else, came the whispered reply, but love and trust.
Max Gladstone
#52. Justice is like math, anyone can think she knows the answer, but not every answer is right.
Max Gladstone
#53. The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
William E. Gladstone
#54. The value of having a vision backed by a strong work ethic is the simple formula for success
Jerry Gladstone
#55. Knowledge," Tara replied, turning a page as quietly as she could manage, "is power.
Max Gladstone
#56. A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
William E. Gladstone
#57. Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
#58. The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity ...
Queen Victoria
#60. The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.
Max Gladstone
#61. Has anything happened in Australia since the eighties? I mean, besides Nemo being reunited with his dad?
Wayne Gladstone
#62. I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism .
William E. Gladstone
#63. Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
#64. The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
#65. You people get so closed up inside those little brains. Their structure changes in response to thought, you know, like your muscles respond to use. The used parts bulk up. Bad training develops uneven strength; it takes time and painful work to balance unbalanced muscles.
Max Gladstone
#66. Don't give up...easy to say. But if you subscribe to this attitude you will always be in the position to succeed.
Jerry Gladstone
#67. Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.
Max Gladstone
#69. She saw what lurked beneath his pleasant, confident exterior: a network of thorns in the shape of a man, a thing that wore him like a suit.
Max Gladstone
#70. I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
William E. Gladstone
#71. Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
William E. Gladstone
#72. Meina Gladstone sat at the head of the long table and felt the peculiar and not-unpleasant sense of separateness which comes from far too little sleep over far too long a period.
Dan Simmons
#73. Abelard did not look up from the god at his feet.
Max Gladstone
#74. Great demons lived between the stars, and in them, beings immense in power and size, who sucked the marrow from suns and sang songs that drove galaxies mad. There
Max Gladstone
#75. We all have set-backs, use yours as fuel to burn your desire and dedication.
Jerry Gladstone
#76. Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.
William E. Gladstone
#78. You wonder at power yoked to service. You wonder because you have come into power young and are learning that power comes through the acceptance of a bond. But if to have power is to be bound, then what is power?
Max Gladstone
#80. For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.
Max Gladstone
#81. It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
Dean Inge
#82. Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
William E. Gladstone
#83. He sighed. "There is one thing you must understand about destroying gods, boy." "Only one?" "You must be ready to take their place.
Max Gladstone
#84. The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.
William E. Gladstone
#85. You're my son. I love you. You work for godless sorcerers who I'd happily gut on the altar of that pyramid and you are part of a system that will one day destroy our city and our planet, but I still love you.
Max Gladstone
#86. I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
William E. Gladstone
#87. There's a long-standing debate in the media biz over whether the news outlets should give the public what it wants, or what it needs. This debate presupposes that media execs actually know what it wants or needs. And that there actually is a unitary "public.
Brooke Gladstone
#88. In the age of hyper technology and cookie crumbs, you can only trust a man in a mask. Everyone else has too much to lose.
Wayne Gladstone
#89. Practice honest self believe to learn and to better yourself.
Jerry Gladstone
#91. The truth is no one should hold you at a higher standard than yourself
Jerry Gladstone
#93. A thousand prickling tender touches lit upon her, as if she was caught in a rainstorm and the raindrops were love.
Max Gladstone
#94. Yes you can, yes you can, yes you can...don't let anybody tell you you cant esp. you!
Jerry Gladstone
#95. Life with through punches at you and sometimes knock you down. Learn to take the hit ,but more importantly learn to get back up and keep punching every single day!
Jerry Gladstone
#96. Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
William E. Gladstone
#97. Religious men often think about death, and Abelard had given some thought to his last words. "I told you so" had not been on the list. The
Max Gladstone
#98. Riding broomsticks, consorting with unholy powers. Who has the time for such pleasantries anymore? Why, I haven't been on a date since the late eighties.
Max Gladstone
#99. Your system kills, too. You're not eliminated sacrifices [to gods], you're democratized them - everyone dies a little every day, and the poor and desperate are the worst injured.
We honored our sacrifices in the old days. You sneer at them.
Max Gladstone
#100. You live in a grim universe."
"That's risk management for you.
Max Gladstone
