George Herbert Quotes

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

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• Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Now
  • Jazz

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Past
  • Fake

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
  • Back
  • Streets
  • Started

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Community
  • Always

• When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Fun

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • Growth

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Inspire

• I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Funny

• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • People
  • True
  • Light

• So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Business
  • Friends
  • True

• Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Help
  • Red

• In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Mind

• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

  

  George Herbert
  • True