John Chrysostom Quotes
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
Quotes to Explore
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
I would like to direct.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
-
America is another name for opportunity.
-
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
-
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
-
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
-
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
-
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
-
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
-
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
-
Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
-
It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
-
I've been training quite hard.
-
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
-
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
-
There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases.
-
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
-
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
-
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
-
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
-
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
