S. D Gordon Quotes
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
-
Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
-
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
-
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
-
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
-
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
-
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
-
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
-
My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.
-
We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
-
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
-
I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
-
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
-
I love the Broncos for helping me out, but it's a business, and that's how I feel about it.
-
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
-
Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
-
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.
-
That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.
-
The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
-
If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
-
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
-
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-
I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.
-
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
