Those Quotes

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.