Ernest Holmes Quotes

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

Ernest Holmes

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• I think there is no racism in this film industry. They are only in need of talent, though it takes time; but, if you are talented, you will get your due. I am thankful to be part of this industry.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Racism
  • Thankful

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Know
  • Violence
  • Television

• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Always

• VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Country
  • Friends
  • American

• Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Competition
  • Compassion

• I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • God

• The thing that I really love about the 80s is, there was a sense of hand made-ness about the fashion then. You could have a pair of jeans and dump some bleach on them, and make them something that was really trendy for that era.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Fashion
  • Sense
  • ERA

• Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Great
  • Free
  • Light

• I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • World
  • Job
  • Jobs

• Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Night

• If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Microscopes

• I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • World
  • Genius
  • Performing

• Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Ends
  • Means
  • Individuals

• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • War
  • Alternatives
  • Relentless

• If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Thinking
  • Hurt
  • Should

• We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Lead
  • Individuals
  • Choiceless