Desmond Tutu Quotes

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

Desmond Tutu

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• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Laugh

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Never
  • Driving
  • Say

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Myself
  • Listening

• I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Guilt
  • Whatever
  • Happily

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Never

• I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

  

  Adam Green
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Way

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

• In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Language
  • Voice
  • Difficult

• The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Diversity
  • Conversation

• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.

  

  Hal Moore
  • War
  • Soldiers
  • Countrymen

• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Virtue
  • Forgiveness
  • Republic

• The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Women
  • Best
  • Group

• Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

  

  Jim Talent
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Beautiful
  • Strange

• Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Forgiveness