Sean Connery Quotes

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

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• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Together
  • Effort

• I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.

  

  Ciara
  • Confidence

• I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.

  

  John Matuszak
  • People
  • Shoes

• Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

  

  John Muir
  • People
  • World
  • Relationship

• Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Men
  • Father
  • Earth

• The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Industry
  • Computer
  • Obsolete

• And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

  

  Mark Levin
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Taxes

• Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Better
  • Making

• “Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.”

  

  Hugh Lofting
  • Moment
  • Decisions
  • Making

• Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

  

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • History
  • Repeat
  • Rhyme

• Power is the goal of religion in general.

  

  Norman Lear
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Goal

• Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.

  

  Renee Ellmers
  • Behinds
  • Higher
  • Awful

• They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Stupid
  • Week
  • Silly

• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Taken
  • King
  • Only

• You cannot run faster than a bullet.

  

  Idi Amin
  • You
  • Run
  • Bullet

• I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?

  

  Otto Dix
  • Experience
  • Dead
  • Bullet

• I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Long
  • Magic
  • Fitness

• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Home
  • You
  • Yourself

• Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Purpose
  • Ideas
  • Commitment

• And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

  

  Candace Wheeler
  • Grief
  • Found
  • Loss

• To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Past
  • Goal
  • Discover

• When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Ideas
  • Values
  • Levels

• If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Bullet