James F. Byrnes Quotes

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James F. Byrnes

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Comedy

• The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Determined

• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Action
  • Woman

• I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Best
  • Moment
  • Performance

• For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• ...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tree

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Electricity was a part of the world from its creation, and therefore my Electra is as old as Daylight or Moonlight, and equally beneficent to mortals and fairies alike.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World

• Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song.

  

  Daryl Sabara
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Movie

• In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Work

• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Political

• With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Writing
  • True
  • Attention

• I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Wish
  • Enjoy
  • Movies

• The best relatively contemporary portrayal of a courtesan that I've ever seen was probably in 'Children of Paradise,' a film that was made during the Nazi occupation of France, made in secret actually.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Children
  • Paradise

• The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Patience

• The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

  

  Lord George Gordon
  • American
  • War
  • Mad

• I've never been driven by box office.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Driven
  • Box Office

• Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

  

  James F. Byrnes