Famous Quotes By James A. Baldwin

 

1. American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
2. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
3. Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
4. Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
5. Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
6. I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
7. I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
8. If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
9. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
10. I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
11. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
12. Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
13. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
14. Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
15. No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
16. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
17. People can cry much easier than they can change.
18. Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
19. The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
20. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
21. The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
22. The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
23. The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
24. The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
25. The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
26. The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
27. There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
28. To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
29. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Jean Cocteau

 

1. A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
2. A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
3. After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
4. All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
5. An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
6. Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
7. Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
8. Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
9. Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
10. Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
11. Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
12. Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
13. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
14. I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
15. I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
16. I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
17. I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
18. I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.
19. Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
20. Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
21. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
22. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
23. The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
24. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
25. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
26. The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
27. The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
28. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
29. You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Orlando Bloom

 

1. A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
2. Elves are cool, man.
3. Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
4. Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
5. I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
6. I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
7. I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
8. I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
9. I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
10. I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
11. I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.
12. I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
13. I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
14. I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
15. I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
16. I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
17. I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
18. I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
19. Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
20. Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
21. People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
22. There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
23. Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
24. When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
25. Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Wayne Dyer

 

1. A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
2. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
3. Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
4. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
5. Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
6. Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
7. Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
8. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
9. It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
10. Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
11. Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
12. Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
13. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
14. Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
15. Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
16. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
17. Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
18. The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
19. There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
20. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
21. What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
22. When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
23. You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
24. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
25. You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Alexis de Tocqueville

 

1. A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
2. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
3. Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
4. As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
5. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
6. He was as great as a man can be without morality.
7. History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
8. I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
9. I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
10. In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
11. In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
12. It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
13. Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
14. Life is to be entered upon with courage.
15. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
16. Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
17. The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
18. The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
19. The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
20. The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
21. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
22. The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
23. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
24. There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
25. There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
26. Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
27. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
28. What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
29. When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh

 

1. A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
2. An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
3. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
4. But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
5. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
6. Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
7. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
8. I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
9. I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
10. I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
11. I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
12. I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
13. If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
14. If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
15. If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
16. In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
17. It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
18. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
19. One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
20. Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
21. Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
22. The best way to know God is to love many things.
23. The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
24. The way to know life is to love many things.
25. There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
26. Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
27. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
28. When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Mae West

 

1. A hard man is good to find.
2. A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
3. A man's kiss is his signature.
4. A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
5. Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
6. Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
7. He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
8. I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
9. I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
10. I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
11. I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
12. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
13. It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
14. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
15. Look your best - who said love is blind?
16. Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
17. Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
18. Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
19. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
20. One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
21. Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
22. Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
23. Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
24. She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
25. Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
26. The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
27. Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
28. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
29. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
30. When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
31. When women go wrong, men go right after them.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Groucho Marx

 

1. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
2. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
3. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
4. All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
5. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
6. Humor is reason gone mad.
7. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
8. I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
9. I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
10. I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
11. I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
12. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
13. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
14. I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
15. I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
16. In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
17. It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
18. Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
19. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
20. Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
21. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
22. Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
23. No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
24. One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
25. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
26. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
27. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
28. She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
29. The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
30. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
31. Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
32. Women should be obscene and not heard.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Pearl S. Buck

 

1. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
2. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
3. A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
4. Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
5. I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
6. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
7. In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
8. Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
9. It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
10. Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
11. Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
12. Love alone could waken love.
13. None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
14. Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
15. One faces the future with one's past.
16. Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
17. Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
18. Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
19. The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
20. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
21. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
22. To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
23. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
24. Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.
25. We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
26. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

 

 

Famous Quotes By David Hume

 

1. A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
2. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
3. A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
4. Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
5. Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
6. Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
7. Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
8. Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
9. Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
10. Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
11. Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
12. Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
13. Men often act knowingly against their interest.
14. Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
15. Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
16. Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
17. The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
18. The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
19. The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
20. The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
21. The law always limits every power it gives.
22. There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
23. There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
24. This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
25. Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Chris Christie

 

1. And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.
2. And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
3. Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
4. Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
5. I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.
6. I don't compromise my principles for politics.
7. I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
8. I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.
9. If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
10. Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
11. It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
12. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
13. Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
14. Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
15. The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
16. Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Ovid

 

1. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
2. All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
3. An evil life is a kind of death.
4. Art lies by its own artifice.
5. Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
6. Bear patiently with a rival.
7. Beauty is a fragile gift.
8. Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
9. Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
10. Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
11. Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
12. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
13. First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
14. Fortune and love favor the brave.
15. Habits change into character.
16. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
17. If you want to be loved, be lovable.
18. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
19. Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
20. Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
21. Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
22. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
23. Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
24. Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
25. The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
26. The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
27. Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
28. Time is generally the best doctor.
29. What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
30. Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

 

 

Famous Quotes By W. Clement Stone

 

1. All I want to do is change the world.
2. Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
3. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
4. Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
5. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
6. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
7. Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
8. No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
9. Prayer is mans greatest power!
10. Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
11. Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
12. Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
13. There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
14. There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
15. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
16. Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
17. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
18. What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
19. When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
20. You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
21. You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
22. Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Ang Lee

 

1. 3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
2. After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
3. Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
4. I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
5. I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
6. I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
7. I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
8. I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
9. I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
10. I think I can work with any type of actor.
11. I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
12. If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
13. I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.
14. I'm just a pretty regular dad.
15. I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
16. In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
17. Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
18. My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
19. Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
20. Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
21. Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
22. Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
23. The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
24. The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
25. These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
26. Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
27. When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
28. You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

 

 

Famous Quotes By Karen Armstrong

 

1. A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
2. After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
3. Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
4. Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
5. I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
6. In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
7. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
8. It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
9. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
10. Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
11. Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
12. Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
13. Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
14. The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
15. There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
16. Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
17. When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
18. Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
19. Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part