Mark Hopkins Quotes

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

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• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Home

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • You
  • Law
  • Capitalism

• When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Painting
  • New York

• Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Today
  • Growing

• Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Want
  • You
  • Question

• What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Him

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Change
  • Desire
  • Better

• We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • Worked
  • Parts
  • Even

• I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Poetry

• Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Career
  • Political
  • Trump

• I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you don't have a good breakfast, then what are you going to do with the rest of your day. I get scared when I don't have a good breakfast!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Important

• You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • School
  • Help

• I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Plan

• Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

  

  Bai Ling
  • World
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Up

• The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Desire

• I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Impact

• At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

  

  Catherine Hicks
  • Religious
  • Artist
  • Teacher

• Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

  

  Mark Hopkins