Sean Connery Quotes

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Sean Connery

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• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Evil
  • Beyond
  • Void

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • President
  • Benefit
  • Directly

• Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Place
  • Guilty
  • Innocence

• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Country
  • Know
  • How

• Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • True
  • Football
  • Boys

• If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Food
  • Italian

• I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • God
  • Heart

• I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Stupid

• English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

  

  David Ginola
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Football

• In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Respect
  • English
  • Period

• I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

  

  Sean Connery
  • English
  • French
  • Reflects