Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes
If we can find a way to keep floodwater in reserve and to use it when it's needed, it will be a double boon.
Quotes to Explore
-
On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
-
The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
-
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
-
I'm still learning my craft.
-
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
-
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
-
That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
-
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
-
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
-
It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
-
People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
-
If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
-
I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
-
I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
-
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
-
The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
-
I've always been very fond of animals.
-
Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
-
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
-
It was evident to Elias Tate that this was the government. First they shake hands with you, he thought, and then they murder you.
-
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'
-
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
-
If we can find a way to keep floodwater in reserve and to use it when it's needed, it will be a double boon.
