John Rhys-Davies Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
-
I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
-
A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
-
I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
-
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
-
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
-
I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
-
From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
-
It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
-
I don't know how to play evil.
-
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
-
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
-
'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
-
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
-
A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)
-
Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
-
When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.
-
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
-
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.
-
Here’s my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic - they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes.
-
Could come to terms with aspects of my past without those terms being set by the Foundation’s unexamined Freudian tradition, which pathologized women’s experience when it didn’t fit the great man’s theory.
-
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
-
You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
-
Unkindness is quite a major sin.
