Moderates Quotes - Page 15

• Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

  Herbert Read

  Artist, Feelings, Stronger

  "Collected Poems". Book by Herbert Read, 1926.

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• Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Pay, Pleasure

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• That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.

  William Herschel

  Atmosphere, Mars, Planets

  William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

  Pete du Pont

  Country, Party, Struggle

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Order, Needs

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• What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a
  moderate extent, the money is taken away.

  Thomas Sowell

  Taken, People, Succeed

  TV Series "Free to Choose" with Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman, 1980.

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• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
  chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

  Truman Capote

  Years, Games, Play

  1965 In Cold Blood, ch.4.

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• A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Class, Wife

  'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Moderation'

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• Fiscally I'm very conservative ... others say that I'm socially moderate.

  Brian Sandoval

  Conservative

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• Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Encouragement, Giving Up, Communication

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Bluebeard”, p.34, Random House

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• You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Christian, Done

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• In the name of Our Lord, Monsieur, do all you can to regain your health and take good care of it so that you can serve God and the poor for a longer time. This moderate care does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Names, Doe

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

  Richard Neal

  Party, Vaccines, Republican

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• The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

  George Eastman

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Government, Political, Liberty

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

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• All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Suffering

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.4

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  Carl Paladino

  Dog, Party, Thinking

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• Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

  Richard Neal

  Country, Believe, Expanding

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• I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

  Rose McGowan

  Thinking, Trying, Republican

  "EXCLUSIVE: Rose McGowan Says Obama Needs to Be 'Tougher' on Republicans" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. September 01, 2010.

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• We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

  Eric Hoffer

  Causes, Opinion, Holy

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Down And, Way

  Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

  Frank Gaffney

  Party, Believe, Challenges

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• As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Names, Groups, Republican

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Selfish, Drinking

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