Many Quotes

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.