Martin Sheen Quotes
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
-
We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
-
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
-
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
-
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
-
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
-
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
-
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
-
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
-
Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
-
DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
-
Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
-
I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
-
That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
-
At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
-
I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
-
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
-
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
-
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
-
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
-
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
-
I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
-
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
