Our Quotes

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.