Ifs Quote by George Saintsbury Download Open image “Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.” — George Saintsbury ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Majority Reason
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion. — Jeffrey Goines Copy Share Image
There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as right or wrong, it is all just a matter of opinion — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. — James Madison Copy Share Image
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.” — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.… — Monica Potter Copy Share
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
