James Theodore Bent Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
-
Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
-
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
-
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
-
'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
-
I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
-
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
-
Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
-
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
-
In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
-
I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
-
The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
-
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
-
The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.
-
The literature of former days is like watching a fire from across the water; in present-day literature, the author himself is being scorched by the fire and he is bound to feel it deeply, and when he begins to feel it deeply, he is bound to take part in the social struggle.
-
I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.
-
For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
-
I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.
-
Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.
-
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
-
I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.
-
The most terrible things end, at last.
