Saint Basil Quotes

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Better
  • Talk
  • Irony

• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Heaven
  • See
  • Electricity

• This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Honor

• At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Love
  • Career
  • Small

• Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Just
  • Other

• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Up
  • Money
  • End

• Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Power
  • Never
  • Step

• Movies are romantic fantasies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Romantic
  • Fantasies

• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• 'Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?' Pelorat said, 'If you list it like that-' 'List it any way you please,' said Trevize. 'I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe

• Poirot twinkled at her gently.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Relax, you're among friends now. The long hard day is over and the roly-poly funny man is before you.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Funny

• The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Together
  • Giving

• Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.

  

  David Hewson
  • Work

• How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • Death

• I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • Energy
  • Optimistic

• Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection

  

  Seth Godin
  • Real
  • Art
  • Powerful

• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Control
  • Pride

• And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Art
  • Night
  • Mean

• When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Church
  • Spirit
  • Prosperity

• If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • People
  • Children
  • Energy

• If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

  

  Saint Basil