John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
Quotes to Explore
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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No matter if we're in a contentious situation or simply engaging in an everyday interaction, we should aspire to have the strength to be kind always. If each of us shared this aspiration, we'd all be better off.
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I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
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I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'
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I did it because I thought I could die quickly if I lived like that. I couldn't end my life, leaving behind my younger sister. I thought that if I lived that way I would get punished and end this crappy life early. But now I want to live. Because I have a reason to live.
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Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
