Paul O'Neill Quotes

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

Paul O'Neill

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• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Ideas
  • Old
  • Quantum

• It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Work
  • Road

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Football
  • Old

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Mistake
  • Lies
  • Process

• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Lies

• I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Process

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Why
  • Government
  • Lies

• Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Free
  • Way
  • Old

• Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Everything

• You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Pretty
  • Feel
  • Young

• I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Years
  • Old

• Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Done
  • Problems
  • Old

• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Got
  • Phone
  • Number

• Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Time
  • Wishes

• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

  

  Paul O'Neill
  • Lies
  • Old
  • Private Life