Phillips Brooks Quotes
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.Phillips Brooks
Quotes to Explore
-
I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
Maajid Nawaz -
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Jackie Chan -
Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
Eddie Izzard -
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
-
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes -
I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
Sam Claflin -
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama -
There's always merit to having a debate.
Ward Churchill -
People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
Dan Gilbert -
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Gael Garcia Bernal
-
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
Dana Spiotta -
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
Parker Posey -
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 -
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
Zadie Smith -
Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
Victoria Legrand Beach House
-
With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.
Ai Weiwei -
It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.
Janet Mock -
There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
Lester B. Pearson -
Aspen tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.
Paul Celan -
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks