Desmond Tutu Quotes

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Desmond Tutu

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• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Doing

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Job
  • Acting
  • First

• For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Women
  • Attitude

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Home
  • Workshop

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Joy

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Growth
  • Safety

• I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Deep
  • Sea

• Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

  

  Pete Rose
  • God
  • Home
  • Desire

• People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • People
  • God
  • Energy

• God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • God
  • Family
  • Dream