Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Nick Nolte

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• A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Long
  • Money
  • Power

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • History
  • Free

• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • World
  • Night

• Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature

• There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Educated

• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • American
  • America

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Life
  • Die
  • Emotional

• The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

  

  Ellen Key
  • World
  • Art

• I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Different
  • Done

• I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

  

  Jean O'Leary
  • Support
  • Sex

• I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Done
  • Preparation

• I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Job

• I can guarantee this to you: every single actor has had a dream of walking on stage on press night and realising that they don't know their lines.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Press

• What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

  

  Bennet Omalu

• No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown. And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • Jew
  • Martyred

• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Why
  • Humanity

• The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Great
  • She
  • War

• A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Warrior
  • Vulnerability
  • Absolute