Letting Quotes

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen.

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.