Fringe Quotes - Page 7

• For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Safety, Age

  "Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens".

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• The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

  Jean Louis

  Today, Way, Tomorrow

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• Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Player, History, Principles

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• Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were accompanied by the eventual disappearance of slavery in all but the fringes of Christian Europe. When Europeans subsequently instituted slavery in the New World, they did so over strenuous papal opposition, a fact that was conveniently 'lost' from history until recently. Finally, the abolition of New World slavery was initiated and achieved by Christian activists.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Rome, Europe

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• Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Rushing, Order

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

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• An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with confidence that most readers will share his sense of concern and indignation. Sounding the call to action-convincing people that change is not only necessary, but actually possible-is more problematic. In protecting animals from cruelty, it is always just one step from the mainstream to the fringe. To condemn the wrong is obvious, to suggest its abolition radical.

  Matthew Scully

  Sports, Writing, Animal

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.393, St. Martin's Press

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Fabric, Sometimes

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

  Markus Zusak

  Teenager, Book, Character

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

  James Taranto

  College, Rights, Views

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• I could go anywhere in the world and people would stop me in the street and talk about Fringe and how much they adored it and asked questions about it.

  John Noble

  People, World, Streets

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

  John Noble

  Thinking, Together, Glue

  "John Noble Talks FRINGE Series Finale, His Reaction to Reading the Final Script, the Last Day on Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?

  Seth Gabel

  Team, Responsibility, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

  Seth Gabel

  Character, Boys, Men

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• My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

  Hayley Atwell

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.

  David Fairchild

  Cancer, Science, Sea

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• In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Husband, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.192, Da Capo Press

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• You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Everyday, Radicalism

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.147, Best Books on

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• I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Live Life, Normal, Margins

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• Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

  Quentin Crisp

  Looks, Way, Sometimes

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 7, 1968.

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• Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.

  Seth Lloyd

  School, Law, Car

  Nature 430, 971, August 26, 2004.

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• Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.

  Maureen Duffy

  Simple, Feet, Trying

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• You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

  Jack Welch

  Calm, Rational, Behave

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• It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.

  Steve Carell

  Nice, People, Findings

  Interview with Samantha Cheirif, collider.com. December 20, 2013.

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• A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Wise, Doe, Study

  Laurie Beth Jones (2011). “Jesus in Blue Jeans: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.

  Vinod Khosla

  Climate, Groups, Needs

  "How Obama's Climate Goals Will Play in Silicon Valley". Interview with Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2014.

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