All Quotes

That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.
‐‐ George Saunders

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
‐‐ Lyn Nofziger

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
‐‐ Kenneth Scott Latourette

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
‐‐ Anish Kapoor

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
‐‐ John Webster

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
‐‐ Francis Quarles

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
‐‐ Jeff Miller

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
‐‐ Ernst Zundel

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
‐‐ Edward Grey

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?
‐‐ Richie Sambora

That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband.
‐‐ Marg Helgenberger

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.
‐‐ Art Modell

That government is best which governs least.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
‐‐ Lyn Nofziger

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

That great dust-heap called 'history'.
‐‐ Augustine Birrell

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
‐‐ Lyn Nofziger

That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.
‐‐ Bill Klem

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
‐‐ Ben Harper

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
‐‐ Marc Webb

That has always been it for me: family first.
‐‐ Leslie Banks

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

That has been one of the best, most rewarding things about being an actor - traveling throughout the world, meeting all kinds of different people and learning about other cultures.
‐‐ Michael Ansara

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
‐‐ Jonathan Kellerman

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
‐‐ Joseph Addison

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
‐‐ Saint Bernard

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.
‐‐ Robert Fitzgerald

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
‐‐ Jennifer Tilly

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.
‐‐ Lucas Neff

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
‐‐ Philip Zimbardo

That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
‐‐ Thomas Woods

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
‐‐ Perry Como

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.
‐‐ Elias Hicks

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.
‐‐ Story Musgrave