AtomicQuote

G.K. Chesterton Quote

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

G.K. Chesterton

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

Related Quotes

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

Og Mandino

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

Tags: life lessons, again, contact, extend, kindness, love, never, person, reward, the same

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Earl Warren

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Tags: communication, computers, e mail, individuality, internet, prediction, privacy, telecommunications

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Tags: death, afterlife, birth, life, life after death, metaphysics, philosophy, you, will

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Tags: architecture, art, design, details

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Tags: ability, able, aphorism, aphorisms, bless, blessed, blessing, blessings, comedian, comedians

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Aristotle

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Tags: best, friendship, best friend, man

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Tags: adage, adages, advantage, advantages, alone, aphorism, aphorisms, asylum, asylums, axiom

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Harper Lee

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Tags: communication, computers, critical thinking, modern life, reading, superficiality, vacuity

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Tags: computers, technology, work, try

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially...

Willow Shields

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially...

Tags: amazing