John Rhys-Davies Quotes
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch -
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.
Hamza Yusuf -
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.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
Kamal Ahmed -
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Wayne Rogers
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
Xavier Niel -
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.
Viggo Mortensen -
I don't know how to play evil.
Carice van Houten -
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.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
'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.’'
Tad Williams
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
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)
Marcus Aurelius -
Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
Alastair Reynolds -
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.
Rickie Lee Skaggs -
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
Dean Koontz -
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Jane Rule
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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Ivan Turgenev -
One should judge the deeds and not the declarations. We have to wait and see if the new Cabinet will, in fact, be sworn in and how it will act, taking into account Arafat's staunch resistance to it and his capacity to undermine any process of reform.
Ehud Olmert -
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.
Howard Baker -
Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.
Joel Fuhrman -
Unkindness is quite a major sin.
John Rhys-Davies