Other Quotes

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.