Famous Quotes By Joe Biden

 

1. A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
2. America doesn't have health insurance.
3. For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
4. Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
5. I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
6. I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
7. I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.
8. Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
9. Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
10. My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
11. My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
12. Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
13. Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
14. The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
15. The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
16. The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
17. There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
18. There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
19. This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.
20. This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
21. We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
22. Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!
23. We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
24. You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Famous Quotes By Jesse Ventura

 

1. All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
2. Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
3. Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
4. Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
5. I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
6. I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
7. I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
8. I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
9. I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
10. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
11. Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
12. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
13. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
14. Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
15. Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
16. The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
17. There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
18. We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
19. Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Famous Quotes By Tadao Ando

 

1. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
2. At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
3. But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
4. I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
5. I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
6. I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
7. I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
8. I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
9. If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
10. If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
11. Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
12. Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
13. Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
14. My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
15. People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
16. Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
17. The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
18. The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
19. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
20. There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
21. When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
22. When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
23. Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
24. You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
25. You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

Famous Quotes By Taylor Swift

 

1. A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
2. All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
3. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
4. Faith Hill is a big role model.
5. For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
6. I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
7. I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
8. I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
9. I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
10. I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
11. I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
12. I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
13. I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
14. I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
15. I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
16. I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
17. In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.
18. In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
19. Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
20. My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
21. People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
22. The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
23. What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
24. When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
25. You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Famous Quotes By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

 

1. A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
2. Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
3. I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
4. I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
5. I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
6. I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
7. I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
8. I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
9. I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
10. I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
11. I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
12. I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
13. I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
14. I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
15. If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
16. I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
17. In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
18. In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
19. Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
20. Music is really something that makes people whole.
21. Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
22. My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
23. My health is fine.
24. My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
25. Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
26. The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
27. This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
28. Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
29. What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
30. When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
31. You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Famous Quotes By Annie Lennox

 

1. A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
2. Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
3. As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
4. Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
5. Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
6. Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
7. For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
8. I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
9. I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
10. I love to make music and stay grounded.
11. I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
12. I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
13. I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
14. I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
15. If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
16. I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.
17. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
18. Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
19. Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
20. Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
21. Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
22. Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
23. The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
24. When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
25. Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

Famous Quotes By Edwin Louis Cole

 

1. Attitude determines the altitude of life.
2. Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
3. Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
4. Fear attracts attack.
5. God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.
6. Have faith in God God has faith in you.
7. Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
8. Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
9. Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
10. Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.
11. Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
12. Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
13. Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.
14. Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.
15. Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
16. Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
17. Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
18. Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
19. The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
20. The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
21. Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
22. Truth cannot be defeated.
23. Truth is life's most precious commodity.
24. You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
25. Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
26. Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Famous Quotes By Henry Adams

 

1. A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
2. Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
3. All experience is an arch, to build upon.
4. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
5. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
6. Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
7. Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
8. Friends are born, not made.
9. He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
10. I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
11. I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
12. It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
13. Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
14. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
15. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
16. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
17. Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
18. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
19. Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
20. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
21. Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
22. The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
23. The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
24. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
25. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Famous Quotes By James Buchan

 

1. Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
2. Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
3. Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
4. If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
5. In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
6. In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
7. Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
8. Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
9. Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
10. Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
11. Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
12. Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
13. Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
14. The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
15. The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
16. The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.
17. To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
18. Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
19. We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
20. Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
21. Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

Famous Quotes By Arthur Erickson

 

1. After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
2. Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
3. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
4. Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
5. I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
6. Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
7. Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
8. No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
9. No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
10. Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
11. Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
12. Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
13. Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
14. Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
15. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
16. The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
17. The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
18. The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
19. There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
20. There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
21. This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
22. Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
23. Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
24. We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
25. We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
26. Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
27. What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
28. With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
29. You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Famous Quotes By Jennifer Garner

 

1. And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.
2. Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?
3. I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.
4. I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
5. I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.
6. I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
7. I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.
8. I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
9. I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
10. I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
11. In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.
12. It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes
13. My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.
14. My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
15. My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset,
16. My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
17. My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.
18. The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
19. There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
20. We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
21. Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Famous Quotes By Baruch Spinoza

 

1. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
2. Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
3. Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
4. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
5. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
6. Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
7. Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
8. He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
9. I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
10. I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
11. Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
12. Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
13. One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
14. Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
15. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
16. Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
17. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
18. There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
19. Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
20. To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
21. Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Famous Quotes By Susan Orlean

 

1. Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.
2. Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
3. I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
4. I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
5. I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.
6. I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
7. I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.
8. In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
9. Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
10. Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
11. My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
12. One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
13. Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
14. Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.
15. The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
16. There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.
17. When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.
18. When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
19. You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

Famous Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

 

1. A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
2. American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
3. Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
4. Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
5. Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
6. Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
7. I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
8. I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
9. I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
10. I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
11. I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
12. I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
13. I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
14. I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
15. I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
16. If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
17. It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
18. It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
19. I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
20. Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
21. My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
22. One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
23. Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
24. Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
25. The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
26. The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Famous Quotes By J. C. Watts

 

1. Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
2. Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
3. I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
4. I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
5. I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
6. I never got into politics for it to be a career.
7. I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
8. I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
9. In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
10. In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
11. In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
12. Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
13. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
14. My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
15. Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
16. The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
17. The strength of America is not in Washington.
18. There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
19. We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.