Those Quotes

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.