Any Quotes

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.