Ivor A. Richards quote: "This essay is intended to serve as a reminder that immense and threatening divisions in mankind can spring from differences between virtues as well as from envies and greeds. When the virtues on each part are largely inapprehensible by the other, the danger is heightened by Man's natural fear of what he does not understand, and his inclination to suppose it not worth understanding. To attack it easier than to study. There are also, in this case of China and the West, intense and complex cultural vanities on both sides to be taken into account: vanities largely inexplicable the one to the other..."

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CARL A. RICHARDS

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the p...
IVOR NOVELLO

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to...
IVOR NOVELLO

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening;...
IVOR NOVELLO

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to the...
IVOR NOVELLO

A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in th...
IVOR NOVELLO

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene ...
IVOR NOVELLO

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
IVOR NOVELLO

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's sho...
IVOR NOVELLO

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political o...
IVOR BROWN

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The ch...
IVOR NOVELLO

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
IVOR NOVELLO

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of peo...
IVOR NOVELLO

We try to get the parent to step back from their emotions and help them figure out the outcome they ...
IVOR WEINER

All that information is put in one place that's easy to access and in an organized fashion so that t...
IVOR WEINER

That one-on-one time, letting them know that they are not alone and there is someone out there who w...
IVOR WEINER

Sometimes it starts with a simple phone call and then listening. Listening is such an important part...
IVOR WEINER

Our job is not to take on the role of advocate. Rather, our job is to provide the individuals or par...
IVOR WEINER

You really need someone who's got a feel for the great Australian middle class and what they want to...
IVOR RIES

There's something Vichy about the French.
IVOR NOVELLO

It's kids & idiots who dare say that the emperor is naked. But: Emperor stays emperor. Idiot sta...
IVOR PLECAS

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre...
IVOR NOVELLO

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is...
IVOR NOVELLO

The bottom line I got out of this is that unless you were a lobbyist, they did not want you to parti...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orlea...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't hav...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

We agree that every single foot of the I-walls is suspect. When asked, we have constantly urged anyo...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

He tried the best that he could, under the circumstances.
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

They should have been monitoring this and informed people all the way to the top, then they should h...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

For people to feel confident about coming back again, they're going to have to rebuild the levee sys...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

It's going to be days before they get all that water out.
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

We would really encourage people not to come back [to New Orleans] for at least a week.
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

We need to recognize we may be about to experience our equivalent of the Asian tsunami, in terms of ...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

My concern was that the focus was not on protecting Louisiana.
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

When it comes to a storm like this, the pumps are mission impossible. Number one, they aren't safe f...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
CECILE RICHARDS

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supporte...
SAM RICHARDS

Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was g...
SAM RICHARDS

This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny lit...
SAM RICHARDS

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of t...
SAM RICHARDS

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You ...
KEITH RICHARDS

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anyw...
KEITH RICHARDS

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
BEAH RICHARDS

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't r...
BEAH RICHARDS

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trill...
BEAH RICHARDS

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't...
BEAH RICHARDS

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
CHARLES RICHARDS

Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them
DICKINSON RICHARDS

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man...
CHARLES RICHARDS

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
KEITH RICHARDS

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't hel...
BEAH RICHARDS

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
ANN RICHARDS

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, you...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...
ANN RICHARDS

Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!
STEPHEN RICHARDS

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through i...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Judgment is a negative frequency.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
BOB RICHARDS

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor...
ANN RICHARDS

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
BOB RICHARDS

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could hav...
BOB RICHARDS

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No ma...
BOB RICHARDS

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things ...
BOB RICHARDS

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't...
BEAH RICHARDS

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

I'm so laid back and not high maintenance in the slightest. If I did get married, I'd probab...
ERIN RICHARDS

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the deci...
ANN RICHARDS

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock an...
KEITH RICHARDS

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the...
MICHAEL RICHARDS

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS

When you're scared, you stay as you are!
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run i...
BEAH RICHARDS

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly thea...
BEAH RICHARDS

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . .Blood doesn't ...
BEAH RICHARDS

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . .Blood doesn'...
BEAH RICHARDS

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with C...
DENISE RICHARDS

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
ANN RICHARDS

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything ...
ANN RICHARDS

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
ANN RICHARDS

Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year...
ANN RICHARDS

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
ANN RICHARDS

You asked what I wanted and I'm not going to lie to you. What I want most is the naked truth. I want...
NADèGE RICHARDS

Everyone in this area hates everything that's different,
ANTHONY RICHARDS

I wasn't going to wear a Cabela's T-shirt just to fit in, ... I've been dressing this way for years.
ANTHONY RICHARDS

Maybe it's best not to play the neighbor who stays out of other people's business,
ANTHONY RICHARDS

Wages growth is, from what we hear, firmer than you would see in the official statistics.
ANTHONY RICHARDS

I just made a mistake. I thought we needed a change. Usually you don't touch those because things li...
ALEC RICHARDS

My job is to stop shots and keep the team in a position to win. I know if I keep the scoring down to...
ALEC RICHARDS

It's always easier to play in big games because the emotion really drives me to want to succeed. Eve...
ALEC RICHARDS

As a goalie your main job is to stop the puck. I view it as an exciting challenge every game and I t...
ALEC RICHARDS

The coaching staff made contact with me early and maintained a great relationship with me throughout...
ALEC RICHARDS

[The biggest difference from Friday's game] was that we got the puck out of the zone. The winger and...
ALEC RICHARDS

They made way too many errors.
ALDEN RICHARDS

We'll take it one game at a time.
ALDEN RICHARDS

Errors, errors. That's what really hurt us.
ALDEN RICHARDS

They hit well. I see a little toughness in them.
ALDEN RICHARDS

Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they ...
DENISE RICHARDS

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your lif...
BOB RICHARDS

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
KEITH RICHARDS

You can take the girl out of Beverly Hills, but you can't take the Beverly Hills out of the girl...
KIM RICHARDS

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you kno...
KEITH RICHARDS

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's ve...
KEITH RICHARDS

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was v...
KEITH RICHARDS

When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn he...
NADèGE RICHARDS

It's nice to know that there is not too much rust after a year off,
BRAD RICHARDS

It was just bad, everything, it started off bad and it was a waterfall, starting with myself making ...
BRAD RICHARDS

They all play hard and they play harder against Canada. We're not going to take that game off and pr...
BRAD RICHARDS

We're good enough to win anywhere. We had a 2-2 tie in the third and we didn't get it done.
BRAD RICHARDS

This is what you saw two years ago [in the 2003-04 Stanley Cup championship season]. We kept finding...
BRAD RICHARDS

When you are in, you are in, it doesn't matter. It took a little while longer than expected, but we ...
BRAD RICHARDS

Whether you lose in double overtime or it's 8-4, it's all the same. Look what happened to Detroit; t...
BRAD RICHARDS

It's special to even be mentioned with such great players. To have a guy like Gretzky think that hig...
BRAD RICHARDS

We have to get close to 40 shots again and keeping pounding the puck. Fancy passing plays, those thi...
BRAD RICHARDS

We're just happy to be in. You don't want to be asked to pick your poison.
BRAD RICHARDS

Overall, we played a pretty good opening weekend tournament. The results were good and, as I go back...
BILL RICHARDS

That was the first time I ever tried to download a whole weekend of images,
BILL RICHARDS

In this new tidal flow technology, there is no dam involved. We just have the water flow doing the w...
BILL RICHARDS

We don't feel like we should lose a point to them. Naturally, we're a little disappointed. It's a co...
BILL RICHARDS

If I could get a third prison crew, that's all they'd do - clean gutters.
BILL RICHARDS

We're disappointed. You always want to be ranked. Every match we've lost has been to a good team. We...
BILL RICHARDS

That's our hook. Why should you pay more for the gasoline and then have to pump it yourself, too?
BILL RICHARDS

I try to keep my price a penny lower than the Go-Mart so I can keep my quota up and stay competitive...
BILL RICHARDS

No one wants to share a championship. We've had a good week and we're definitely going in with the i...
BILL RICHARDS

We are truly excited to be selected to compete in one of the most prestigious fall tournaments of th...
BILL RICHARDS

We feel very fortunate over here.
BOB RICHARDS

It was a real culture shock. It was a very fast-paced, demanding fishbowl.
BOB RICHARDS

I was quite enjoying the time, frankly. I was traveling, working around the house, golfing and helpi...
BOB RICHARDS

The political involvement was more than I'd ever experienced. You either succeed or go home in that ...
BOB RICHARDS

We will be pretty busy here for a while building a new facility and just learning about the communit...
BOB RICHARDS

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No ma...
BOB RICHARDS

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things ...
BOB RICHARDS

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your...
ANN RICHARDS

What I’ve come to realize I that I don’t like action for action’s sake. Mindless explosions, s...
J.M. RICHARDS

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything ...
ANN RICHARDS

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.
DENISE RICHARDS

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
KEITH RICHARDS

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think...
DENISE RICHARDS

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a s...
ANN RICHARDS

Planned Parenthood will fight these attacks in courts, in the state houses, at the ballot boxes to e...
CECILE RICHARDS

Health-care decisions should be made by women, with their doctors and families -- not politicians. L...
CECILE RICHARDS

Despite 33 years of Supreme Court precedent that women's health matters, the court has decided it wi...
CECILE RICHARDS

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health...
CECILE RICHARDS

Today's actions by the court are a shining example of why elections matter. When judges far outside ...
CECILE RICHARDS

These abortion bans, and the politicians supporting them, are far outside the mainstream of America....
CECILE RICHARDS

We're trying to evaluate the timing and the options now, but we're committed to making sure this doe...
CECILE RICHARDS

In many communities, Wal-Mart is the only pharmacy, so timely access is critical.
CECILE RICHARDS

The Supreme Court's decision to hear this case is a dangerous act of hostility aimed squarely at wom...
CECILE RICHARDS

Expanding access to contraception is the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies, and Planned Par...
CECILE RICHARDS

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds ...
KEITH RICHARDS

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDS

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do ...
ANN RICHARDS

They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their chi...
ANN RICHARDS

There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.
ANN RICHARDS

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the ot...
ANN RICHARDS

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
ANN RICHARDS

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
ANN RICHARDS

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducki...
ANN RICHARDS

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
ANN RICHARDS

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back...
ANN RICHARDS

I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
ANN RICHARDS

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
ANN RICHARDS

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young peo...
ANN RICHARDS

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
KEITH RICHARDS

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people ...
ANN RICHARDS

There are, I think, a lot of journalists who don't take the NPF quite as seriously as they later rea...
STEVE RICHARDS

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enh...
KEITH RICHARDS

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the b...
ANN RICHARDS

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off...
KEITH RICHARDS

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.
ANN RICHARDS

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
KEITH RICHARDS

Hedge funds are heavily weighted towards the small and mid-cap end of the market. With flows to hedg...
ALBERT RICHARDS

We had several one-run losses. Had we been able to convert half of those into wins, we'd be in the p...
JIM RICHARDS

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDS

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I...
KEITH RICHARDS

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general leve...
KEITH RICHARDS

Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I ...
KEITH RICHARDS

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