Top 34 J Balfour Quotes
#1. He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.
Arthur Balfour
#2. Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
Arthur Balfour
#3. As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately
Barbara W. Tuchman
#4. This isn't a duality. I'm not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn't a lever inside me that determines which of me you're talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn't change. It's still a knife.
Wildbow
#5. The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.
Robert Fisk
#6. He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
Arthur Balfour
#7. I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference
Arthur Balfour
#8. Each item of business was described in the expansive, flourishing script that Balfour associated in his mind, with a man who could afford to waste his ink on curlicues.
Eleanor Catton
#9. This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#10. As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.
Eric Balfour
#11. As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.
Eric Balfour
#12. I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
Arthur Balfour
#13. The minute you try to do something that is not true to you, is not something that you really know about, and is not a lifestyle or world that you live in or can relate to, it's going to come off as false.
Eric Balfour
#14. Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
Arthur Balfour
#17. Brandeis thought that the British should allow more Jews into Palestine. It was not only their obligation under the Balfour Declaration; it was the only way Jews could be saved from Hitler. When
Lewis J. Paper
#18. I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.
Eric Balfour
#19. A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives.
Eric Balfour
#20. Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.
Arthur Balfour
#21. I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.
Eric Balfour
#22. A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour.
Eleanor Catton
#23. The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.
Eric Balfour
#24. The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
Arthur Balfour
#25. The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.
Francis Maitland Balfour
#26. By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.
Eric Balfour
#27. The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
Arthur Balfour
#28. Round here, everybody's always talking about home,' said Balfour. 'Can't help but think that the pleasure's in the missing.
Eleanor Catton
#29. I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur Balfour
#30. As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.
Eric Balfour
#31. I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.
Eric Balfour
#32. As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.
Eric Balfour
#33. Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?
Arthur Balfour
#34. One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.
Eric Balfour
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