Every accepted public quote

“And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.”

“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final”

“You see, feminists don't really like to define the Patriarchy. They prefer to keep it nebulous and amorphous so they can conveniently blame it for everything that goes wrong in their lives....”

“Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.”

“Would you want to be marketed to with the same tactics that you use to market to others? If not, then consider changing the message.”

“The Golden Rule is to 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus' Sermon on the Moun...”

“Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.”

“In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.”

“Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.”

“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”

“I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull...”

“When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.”

“The basic teaching of all religions is silence. A silence spread in our inner being, the mind will begin to dissolve. That silence unites you with truth. When a person is ready to dissolve i...”

“Who needs soap operas now when we have social media timelines? Now you can get a similar drama fix by just paying attention to your friends and family members' Facebook pages.”

“During the day, I don't read too much of the blog traffic, but then at night, I read transcripts of all of the network packages, and then I watch the wires and some of the political blogs.”

“It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.”

“She left me ravenous and wishing upon fireflies for more. Limbs as puzzle pieces we fit together.”

“If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.”

“Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.”

“Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Irelan...”

“Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.”

“The moon shone Bright that night ... And the poetry? It just happened”

“The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you lo...”

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

“Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for story...”

“A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.”

“I intend to be making films until I'm an old lady. So, if God willing I get there, I need to create a paradigm for myself where I can make it regardless of whether or not they still like wha...”

“Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about...”

“People working in films are somewhat like gypsies: we move from set to set and spent weeks, sometimes even longer working while shooting a film. Right from the spot boys to the make-up guys...”

“I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.”

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.”

“I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, o...”

“The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.”

“The way I see it, the perfect weekend getaway combines three things: seeing new places, eating delicious local food, and combing the local flea market for unique, one-of-a-kind finds.”

“Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.”

“I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?”

“If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impac...”

“And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.”

“I became a beach bum.”

“My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.”

“You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of...”

“The American dream has always been about chasing opportunity and pursuing a brighter future for ourselves and our children.”

“I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.”

“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”

“Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 d...”

“I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own...”

“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”