Dwayne Johnson Quotes

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Good
  • Why
  • Law

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Think
  • Support
  • Examination

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Movie
  • Television
  • Three

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Dying
  • Talking

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Ideas

• Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Party
  • Red

• I probably fly twice a week, within Canada and the States.

  

  Jim Pattison
  • Fly

• One may not eat what has a face.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • May
  • Animal
  • Faces

• The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Today
  • Past