Francis Arinze Quotes

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Francis Arinze

• World
• Always
• Virtue
• Tendency

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• I was always taken in and out of school.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Taken
  • Always

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Broken
  • U.S.

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Artist
  • Works
  • Lego

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Myself

• Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Up
  • Think
  • Stadium

• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Money
  • Success
  • Support

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Down

• I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Rock
  • Dark
  • Colors

• Thank God for product and blusher.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • God
  • Product
  • Thank God

• Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Like
  • Feel

• 'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Laughing
  • Sadness

• If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.

  

  David Ignatius
  • World
  • War
  • America

• There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

  

  Francis Arinze
  • World
  • Always
  • Virtue