George Herbert Quotes

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

George Herbert

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• I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Forever

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
  • Always
  • Poetry

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Limit

• When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • Care
  • Feelings

• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Alone
  • Rights
  • Indians

• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Economy

• The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Enlightenment

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Know
  • Designer

• Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Reader
  • Terms

• When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Help
  • Cancer
  • Jump

• I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

  

  B. B. King
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hope

• When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Control

• I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • School
  • Day
  • Practice

• It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Amazing

• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • True
  • Water

• One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Together
  • Distance

• I grew up feeling 'less than.' I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I'd wait for my grandmother's voice to call, 'Jewell, Jewell.' I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I'd be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Done
  • Focus

• Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

  

  George Herbert