John Culberson Quotes

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John Culberson

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• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Writer
  • Talker

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • World
  • Hollywood

• My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Past
  • Dad
  • Walking

• I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Stop
  • Kind
  • Doing

• One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Deep
  • Sense
  • Outsider

• Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World

• The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Writing

• ...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Men
  • Power
  • Advice

• Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Free
  • Freedom

• And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Fear
  • Bubbles

• People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.

  

  Andrea Dworkin

• I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?

  

  Bono U2
  • Up
  • Water
  • Rock

• I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

  

  Burt Shavitz
  • House
  • Desire
  • Wife

• I love make-up so much, but I'm a bit rubbish at skincare; I'm really disloyal and never stick to one thing.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up

• We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • May
  • Soul
  • Peace

• In my experience, in this industry, the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.

  

  Renee James
  • Industry
  • Communicating
  • Breakthrough

• Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

  

  Bill Maher

• The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

  

  Efim Bogoljubov
  • Book
  • Chance
  • Young People

• Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

  

  George Carlin
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.

  

  John Culberson