Every accepted public quote

“Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but oth...”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.”

“My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.”

“We are always the same age inside.”

“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no acces...”

“When you make a choice, you change the future.”

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom...”

“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”

“love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love”

“So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?”

“I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.”

“Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.”

“We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.”

“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to desp...”

“Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department”

“Improving your future requires study of the past; we learn traveling through life and especially from mistakes that provide lessons we should not repeat.”

“I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get ri...”

“Throughout your career, whether you're getting into the sport or have been it in for a number of years like me, there will always be obstacles. The important thing is how you deal with those...”

“I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.”

“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.”

“Terrorists remain determined to find a weakness in our defence... To stay ahead of the terrorists, I call on the international community, the private sector, and academia to share knowledge,...”

“Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”

“That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.”

“If you don't know how you feel, you wouldn't know why you act the way you act.”

“Give my soul to Heaven to keep it, while I am becoming nothing but pleasure in your skilful hands of a sculptor.”

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition...”

“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.”

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”

“If I can bicycle, I bicycle.”

“The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.”

“I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world an...”

“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”

“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in...”

“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”

“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the...”

“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”

“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.”

“And there are always those who would watch Alexandria burn. There always have been. There always will be.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”

“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

“Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because yo...”

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”