Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

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• I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Man
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Honor

• Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Man
  • Crazy
  • Thoughtful

• Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Air

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Hurt
  • Learn
  • Down

• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Never
  • Religion

• O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Heart
  • May
  • Broken

• My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Time
  • World
  • Man

• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • More
  • Bored

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • Work
  • Man

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Advice

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Strong
  • Broken
  • Habit

• I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • American
  • Man

• There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Risk
  • Hurt
  • Feelings

• Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

  

  Peter Yarrow
  • Hurt
  • Price
  • Respected

• If you're doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that's perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Money

• There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

  

  James Lasdun

• I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

  

  Jean Racine
  • Women

• This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

  

  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Man
  • Hurt
  • Broken