Stephen Fry Quotes

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Support

• I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Happy
  • Strong

• Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Standup

• You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Career
  • Wise
  • Greatest

• We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Small

• When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Know
  • Lace

• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Wall

• A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Always
  • Person
  • Someone

• My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Heart
  • Parents

• Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bible
  • Actor
  • Carry

• I want you to be able to go to Aquazzura and find a shoe for every occasion, whether that's a red carpet ball or picking up your kids from school.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

• Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Star
  • Sky

• My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Power
  • House

• The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fire
  • Spirit
  • Anger

• What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Book

• 'I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes...' With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth gems of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Strength
  • Possession
  • Misfortune

• I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Language
  • Tolerance
  • Lovers