Matthew Fox Quotes

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

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• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • United States
  • Trade
  • China

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • World
  • Best
  • Jesus

• Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Real
  • Focus
  • New

• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• '24' is such an iconic show.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Show
  • Iconic

• When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Kind
  • British

• No one wants peace more than me.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Me
  • Peace
  • More

• I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Love
  • Job
  • Parents

• I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Feel
  • Learned
  • Students

• L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Business
  • Creative

• It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • You
  • Act
  • Crew

• Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Waste

• When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Years
  • Old
  • Gum

• Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Up
  • Mind

• A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • She

• I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • American

• When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • World
  • Book
  • Past

• Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Media

• We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

  

  Lee H. Hamilton
  • Option

• Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Together
  • Thought
  • Belief

• I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

  

  Matthew Fox