Quotes by Categories Quotes with COMMITMENT Category All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference. Queen Noor of Jordan differences people commitment First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. Queen Elizabeth II smile kindness commitment When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined. Quentin L. Cook repentance reason commitment We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M. R. Bowen Loftin texas honor commitment American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism. R. James Woolsey, Jr. corn war commitment A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life. R. Kent Hughes prayer-life prayer commitment Quotes with NEW DAY Category Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life. A. A. Gill breakfast new-day commitment The New Apostolic Reformation is an extraordinary work of the Holy Spirit that is changing the shape of Christianity globally. It is truly a new day! The Church is changing. New names! New methods! New worship expressions! The Lord is establishing the foundations of the Church for the new millennium. This foundation is built upon apostles and prophets. Apostles execute and establish God's plan on the earth. C. Wagner expression names new-day Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. Carrie Underwood finding-happiness moving-on new-day The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance. Charles Baudelaire horror-genre devil new-day Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days? Cleveland Amory country past new-day Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans. Conan O'Brien stars war new-day Quotes with BREAKFAST Category My mom cares that I tweeted a picture of my breakfast. She's knows I'm eating and I'm safe. Jack Dorsey care mom breakfast I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation. Jack Tretton car expectations breakfast I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous. Jack Nicholson yards breakfast thinking We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.” Jack Kornfield everyday breakfast new-day So what’d you do to the lesser?” a male voice said. “I lit his cigarette with a sawed-off,” another one answered. “He didn’t come down for breakfast, you feel me? J.R. Ward males voice breakfast I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself. P. G. Wodehouse soup heart breakfast Quotes with DIRTY Category You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day. J. B. Smoove clothes people dirty Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K. J. P. McEvoy four work dirty Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may. J. G. Holland indulge-in country dirty Whoa," Brit breathed, handing my drink back to me. "That was..." "Really hot," Jacob finished. "I thought you two were going to rip off each other's clothes and start making babies right here on the dirty, beer covered floor. Like I was going to have to start charging admission for what was about to go down. J. Lynn rip baby dirty The recording process [ for 'Dirty Work'] took longer than anticipated, because we kept going on tour in between the recording process to make sure that we were still pleasing all the fans across the world. Jack Barakat fans dirty world Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest. J. D. Salinger moron knees dirty Quotes with BANKERS Category Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do. Ralph Steadman mean bankers thinking I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good. Raymond C. Hoiles politician men bankers Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought. Robert F. Engle risk people bankers A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even. Robert Graves rich writing bankers Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. Robert Reich socialism rich bankers If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is. Robert W. Hemphill commercial-banks dollars bankers Quotes with NEGATIVE Category Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions A. R. Rahman different hatred negative Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is. Aaron Belz space important negative Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning. Bailee Madison sometimes looks negative We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Barack Obama hours negative moving You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. D. H. Lawrence positive love negative Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation. Dalai Lama motivation action negative Quotes with ROOMS Category A library is a room where the murders take place. J. B. Morton library murder rooms My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out. J. Michael Straczynski want philosophy rooms I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in. Jack Benny dump beautiful rooms I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper. Jack Kilby technology looks rooms There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. Jack Nicklaus mind rooms negative I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room. Jack Ruby innocence gentleman rooms Quotes with CHEF Category I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care. Elizabeth Olsen fats care chef I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman. Emeril Lagasse tvs guy chef Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs. Elton John chef I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it. Eric Balfour brilliant stuff chef You don't become a chef to become famous. Eric Ripert chef You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Erin Morgenstern kitchen ingredients chef Quotes with WINDOW Category I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come. A. J. McLean old-fashioned window When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday. Barbara Kingsolver everyday want window Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. C. F. Powell devices views window Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. Carol Grace hospitals different window You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window. Cassandra Clare said men window I mean . . . who was it that said if the door is locked, find a window. If the windows locked, well . . . break it. If it won't break then find a freaking sledgehammer and make a new one. C.C. Hunter doors mean window Quotes with PAST Category There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go A. A. Milne animal zoos past Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united. A. B. Simpson secret people past So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. A. B. Yehoshua judging truth past Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. A. Bartlett Giamatti power wisdom past The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes. A. D. Coleman eye might past You think you might know something about yourself or why you act or react in certain ways and then you come to new information and suddenly you see your past and your present in a completely different light. A Fine Frenzy different past thinking Quotes with FICTION Category I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. A. E. van Vogt science fiction years Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction. A. S. Byatt self lying fiction Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch. Aaron Taylor-Johnson watches fiction years In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one. Abbas Kiarostami good-movie mind fiction Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. B. R. Ambedkar principles may fiction For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. C. J. Cherryh fiction world art Quotes with WAY Category Worship...is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth. J. B. Torrance real spirit way There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. J. Carter Brown fur cat way I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way. J. Christopher Burch way years moving Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing? J. C. Ryle writing book way It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security. J. D. Greear source identity way When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own. J. H. Rush wilderness men way Quotes with ENEMY Category Distance is the Enemy of Awareness. J. B. MacKinnon distance awareness enemy His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor. J. Christopher Herold effort war enemy Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle. J. E. B. Stuart battle believe enemy You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch. J. F. Lawton under-siege invisible enemy To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. J. F. C. Fuller suicidal suicide enemy I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you. J. G. Ballard creativity enemy thinking Quotes with LOOKS Category You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough! Queen Latifah self-respect strength looks Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills. Queen Rania of Jordan girl country looks When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen because I don't touch it afterwards. I never think about it, before being on the set. That's my thing. I love to be stuck. Quentin Dupieux things-i-love looks thinking Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much. Quinton Aaron acting people looks He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. Quintus Curtius Rufus doe tree looks I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. Quentin Tarantino realizing too-much looks Quotes with TELEVISION Category Television is the third parent. R. Buckminster Fuller thirds parent television The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. R. W. Apple age country television I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship. Rachael Taylor able television thinking I think of my job on television as explaining things. Rachel Maddow jobs television thinking The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence? Randall Wright influence tvs television I don't watch television. Ray Walston watches television Quotes with PEOPLE Category People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end. A. C. Benson ends goes-on people The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply. A. C. Cuza giving order people There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage A. D. Patel cartoon skills people The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come. A. E. Housman church dumb people Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people. A. G. Gaston successful people needs Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so? A. I. Bezzerides solitude people thinking Quotes with DULL Category If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull. Rachel Johnson telling-the-truth trouble dull Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds. Raymond Chandler vitality mind dull You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one. Red Barber be-prepared games dull The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. Ralph Waldo Emerson slavery men dull The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life of its moments of celebration and festivity. It is because of them that there is so little festivity in the world, and every day it is becoming more and more dull and dreary and miserable. Rajneesh done dull world The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting. Richard M. Nixon political dull interesting Quotes with FACTS Category The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through. A. Whitney Brown jaguars pekingese facts I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience. Aaron Copland want facts people My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside. Aaron Klug men father facts Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying. Abby Sunderland dying brain facts While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. A.J. Ayer moral may facts I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud. A.M. Homes secret littles facts Quotes with AMERICA Category We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us. J. C. Chandor government america people 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. J. C. Watts skin-color reality america The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic. J. Edgar Hoover party heart america When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas. J. Frank Dobie texas example america As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion. J. Gordon Melton psychics reality america I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling. J. R. Simplot hustle achievement america Quotes with REALITY Category Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does. J. Budziszewski shapes doe reality In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. J. L. Austin defense responsibility reality One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. J. J. Abrams stars character reality One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. J. K. Rowling greek reality people The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking. J. R. Smith ocean air reality There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. J. I. Packer stressed judging reality «1234567891011»