John Bercow Quotes

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

John Bercow

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• When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Crazy
  • Yoga
  • Try

• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Always

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bike
  • Capable
  • Riding

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Think

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Harmony

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Work
  • Small

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Action
  • Pain

• Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.

  

  Dana Boente
  • America
  • Serious
  • Businesses

• Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Future
  • Change

• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Control

• I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Happy
  • Admit
  • Hopeless

• I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Never
  • Feel

• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Heart

• You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

  

  Gary Soto
  • People
  • Reading
  • Bright

• Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Time

• I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Stupid

• I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• And I says back to him, 'Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,' and he says back to me, 'I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,' and I said, 'Why?' and he says to me, 'Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Stop

• There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

  

  John Bercow