Brian Dennehy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
-
We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.
-
I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
-
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
-
Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
-
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
-
If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
-
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
-
I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
-
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
-
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
-
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
-
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
-
It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.
-
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
-
I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
-
In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
-
I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
-
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
-
I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.
-
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
-
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
-
And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
-
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
