Peter Hammill Quotes

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

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• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Glamourous

• I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Romantic
  • Guess
  • Bit

• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Action

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• You know, you can tell the difference between a terrorist and a toddler. On a terrorist, the diaper is gonna be on the head, all right? That's how you can tell the difference. very loud applause It's upsetting. Unbelievable. They got absolutely nothing in common except both diapers are full of crap.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law
  • Heaven
  • Poetry

• If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Hope
  • Identity

• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Nice

• The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

  

  Pierre Salinger

• For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Great
  • Live
  • Football

• Not all teammates tell the truth.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Truth

• The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Children

• I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

  

  Lynn Flewelling
  • America
  • Small
  • City

• I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Bad
  • Rap
  • Reflection

• The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Business
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Seems

• I have no intention of making small bets.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Small

• Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.

  

  Jean Genet
  • Life
  • Fierce

• I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Fierce