Peter Falk Quotes

There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.

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• I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Believe
  • Myself

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Same
  • Leader
  • Will

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Way
  • Change
  • Woman

• I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Leadership
  • Lunch

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Joy
  • Silly

• Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Man
  • Always
  • Cut

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Tongue

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Live
  • Love
  • Discrimination

• Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Attention
  • Your
  • Capture

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Real
  • High
  • Technology

• I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Attention

• Our life is just a bird, which flies into illuminated window, and then flies away, again, into the darkness

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Bird
  • Window

• There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Opinion
  • Littles
  • Reputation

• I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Teach

• When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Understanding

• There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.

  

  Peter Falk
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