Famous Quotes By William Hague

 

1. As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
2. At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
3. I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
4. I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
5. I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
6. I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
7. I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
8. I trust the people.
9. I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
10. Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
11. It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
12. It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.
13. Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
14. Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
15. People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
16. Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
17. Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
18. The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
19. The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
20. The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
21. The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
22. The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
23. The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
24. There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
25. There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
26. To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
27. Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
28. Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
29. We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
30. We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
31. Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
32. You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

Famous Quotes By Henry Miller

 

1. All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
2. An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
3. Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
4. Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
5. Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
6. Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
7. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
8. If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
9. Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
10. In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
11. In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
12. In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
13. Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
14. Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
15. Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
16. Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
17. No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
18. No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
19. Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
20. Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
21. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
22. The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
23. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
24. The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
25. The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
26. The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
27. The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
28. The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
29. There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
30. True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
31. We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
32. What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
33. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
34. Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Famous Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

1. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
2. All things must change to something new, to something strange.
3. Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
4. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
5. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
6. For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
7. Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
8. However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
9. If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
10. Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
11. It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
12. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
13. Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
14. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
15. Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
16. Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
17. Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
18. Music is the universal language of mankind.
19. People demand freedom only when they have no power.
20. Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
21. Resolve and thou art free.
22. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
23. The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
24. The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
25. The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
26. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
27. The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
28. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
29. There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
30. Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
31. Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
32. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
33. Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Famous Quotes By Ray Bradbury

 

1. A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
2. Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
3. Everything is generated through your own will power.
4. I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
5. I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
6. I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
7. I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
8. I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library.
9. If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
10. If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
11. If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
12. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers,
13. If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
14. I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
15. It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
16. Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
17. Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
18. Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
19. My business is to prevent the future.
20. My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
21. The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
22. The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
23. There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
24. Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
25. We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
26. We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
27. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
28. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
29. You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Famous Quotes By Saint Augustine

 

1. Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
2. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
3. Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
4. Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
5. Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
6. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
7. God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
8. God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
9. He that is jealous is not in love.
10. In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
11. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
12. It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
13. Love is the beauty of the soul.
14. Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
15. Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
16. O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
17. Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
18. Patience is the companion of wisdom.
19. Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
20. Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
21. The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
22. The purpose of all wars, is peace.
23. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
24. Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
25. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
26. What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
27. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
28. Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Famous Quotes By Dale Carnegie

 

1. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
2. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
3. Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
4. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
5. Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
6. Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
7. Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
8. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
9. Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
10. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
11. If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
12. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
13. Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
14. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
15. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
16. Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
17. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
18. Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
19. Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
20. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
21. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
22. The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
23. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
24. The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
25. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
26. Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
27. You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
28. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
29. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
30. Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Famous Quotes By Drew Barrymore

 

1. Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
2. Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
3. I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
4. I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
5. I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
6. I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
7. If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
8. I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
9. I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
10. I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.
11. I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.
12. It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
13. I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
14. Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
15. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
16. My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.
17. Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
18. The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.
19. When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something.
20. Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.
21. You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Famous Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

 

1. A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
2. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
3. Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
4. Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
5. Don't forget to love yourself.
6. Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
7. Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
8. God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
9. How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
10. I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
11. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
12. It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
13. Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
14. Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
15. Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
16. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
17. Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
18. Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
19. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
20. Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
21. Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
22. Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
23. Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
24. People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
25. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
26. Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
27. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
28. Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
29. The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
30. The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
31. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
32. The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
33. There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
34. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
35. What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Famous Quotes By Simone Weil

 

1. A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
2. A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
3. A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
4. An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
5. As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
6. Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
7. Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
8. Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
9. Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
10. Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
11. Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
12. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
13. Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
14. Humility is attentive patience.
15. I can, therefore I am.
16. If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
17. Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
18. Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
19. In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
20. More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
21. Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
22. The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
23. The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
24. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
25. The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
26. The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
27. The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
28. The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
29. The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
30. There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
31. To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
32. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
33. To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
34. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
35. We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
36. What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
37. Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Famous Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

 

1. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
2. All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
3. Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
4. Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
5. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
6. I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
7. I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
8. I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
9. If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
10. It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
11. It takes a great man to be a good listener.
12. Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
13. Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
14. No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
15. No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
16. Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
17. Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
18. The business of America is business.
19. The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
20. Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
21. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
22. We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
23. When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Famous Quotes By Gustave Flaubert

 

1. A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
2. All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
3. Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
4. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
5. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
6. Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
7. Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
8. Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
9. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
10. I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
11. I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
12. I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
13. Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
14. Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
15. Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
16. Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
17. One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
18. One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
19. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
20. Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
21. Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
22. Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
23. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
24. The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
25. The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
26. The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
27. The future is the worst thing about the present.
28. The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
29. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
30. The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
31. The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
32. There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
33. There is no truth. There is only perception.
34. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
35. You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Famous Quotes By Mother Teresa

 

1. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
2. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
3. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
4. I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
5. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
6. If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
7. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
8. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
9. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
10. Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
11. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
12. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
13. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
14. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
15. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
16. Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
17. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
18. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
19. Peace begins with a smile.
20. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
21. The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
22. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
23. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
24. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
25. We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Famous Quotes By Christina Aguilera

 

1. Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
2. For me the visual is just as important as the music.
3. Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
4. I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
5. I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
6. I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
7. I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
8. I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
9. I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
10. I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
11. I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.
12. I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
13. I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.
14. I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
15. I'm at peace.
16. I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
17. I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
18. In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
19. It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.
20. It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.
21. It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
22. It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.
23. It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.
24. It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.
25. My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
26. My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
27. My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
28. My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
29. Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
30. Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.
31. So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
32. Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
33. To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
34. We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
35. Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
36. When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
37. You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Famous Quotes By Daniel Radcliffe

 

1. England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
2. I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
3. I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
4. I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
5. I have no idea how much money I've got.
6. I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
7. I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
8. I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.
9. I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
10. I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
11. I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
12. I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
13. If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
14. I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
15. I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
16. I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
17. Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
18. It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
19. I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.
20. I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.
21. My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
22. My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
23. My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
24. People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
25. Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
26. The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.
27. The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
28. The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
29. There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

Famous Quotes By Jim Carrey

 

1. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
2. Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
3. Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
4. But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
5. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
6. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
7. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
8. I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.
9. I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
10. I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
11. I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
12. I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
13. I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
14. I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
15. If you've got a talent, protect it.
16. I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
17. I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
18. It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
19. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
20. Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
21. Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
22. My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
23. My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
24. My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
25. My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
26. One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
27. That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
28. The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.