“God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.”
-Ramakrishna
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“God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.”
-Ramakrishna
“So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.”
-Alan Cumming
“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.”
-Lewis Mumford
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
-Oliver Goldsmith
“I went onto reality TV as a business decision.”
-Bethenny Frankel
“It’s hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell ’em they’re irresponsible and lazy. And who’s gonna wanna do that? Because that’s what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.”
-Bill O’Reilly
“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
-Blaise Pascal
“As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you’re interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.”
-Charlie Kaufman
“As a relatively young woman – I’m 33 – I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I’m elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.”
-Lucy Powell
“I’m a comedian, for God’s sake. Viewers shouldn’t trust me. And you know what? They’re hip enough to know they shouldn’t trust me. I’m just doing stand-up comedy.”
-Dennis Miller
“I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.”
-Lou Gerstner
“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.”
-Katharine Hepburn
“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.”
-Luther Burbank
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.”
-Lord Chesterfield
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
-Alexander Pope
“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”
-Phil Ochs
“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
-Victor Hugo
“I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.”
-Doutzen Kroes
“I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it’s business as usual. I don’t understand how they can’t see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.”
-Elizabeth Warren
“I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I’m glad that I did it.”
-Tom Glazer
“I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I’m so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.”
-Miguel Jontel Pimentel
“I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn’t.”
-LaToya Jackson
“Look at Jessica Simpson. She’s famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn’t that dumb, but that’s how she was perceived – and that’s what got popular.”
-Danica McKellar
“It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.”
-Stephen Covey
“I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you’re together, which is that you just like each other.”
-Chris Martin
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
-Warren Buffett
“My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.”
-Tony Visconti
“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.”
-Doyle Brunson
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
-Winston Churchill
“Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.”
-Ned Rorem
“Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.”
-Chris Christie
“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”
-Will Rogers
“Success is a great deodorant.”
-Elizabeth Taylor
“I’m sure there were times when I wish I had thought, ‘Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,’ but our parents didn’t raise us to think about them. They’re very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn’t think of any repercussions.”
-Jenna Bush
“I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words ‘ice queen’ attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There’s this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.”
-Kristin Scott Thomas
“The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.”
-George Whitefield
“Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.”
-Richard Francis Burton
“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.”
-Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.”
-Rand Paul
“For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it’s possible to actually reach success doing movies.”
-Joan Chen
“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.”
-Clare Boothe Luce
“But it wasn’t until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130’s all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.”
-Rick Perry
“Don’t worry about the war. It’s all over but the shooting.”
-Samuel Goldwyn
“Everyone is different, but I’m not standoffish at all. I’m not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I’ll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer’s no, I’m totally cool with it.”
-Corbin Bleu
“And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I’m probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.”
-Jeremy Irons
“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
-Rutherford B. Hayes
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
-Bob Dylan
“If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.”
-Nick Park
“I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.”
-Bob Ney