Eric Hoffer Quotes
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
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I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
