Hugo Black Quotes

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Will

• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Want

• I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Hands

• We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Live
  • Never
  • Looking

• With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Reading

• What fools call 'wasting time' is most often the best investment.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time

• You are a spirit, then,you Man, and not a Manat all.You are a spirit and you dwellwithin the guts of mortal beast.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • God
  • Family
  • Dream

• I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

  

  James Carville
  • American
  • Liar

• In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Time
  • Done
  • Forever

• No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

  

  Liz Smith
  • Life

• There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Up
  • Country

• We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Money
  • Mistakes
  • Cost

• No one is 'the next' anyone, especially if that person is still here, doing their thing, as she Mariah clearly is. The comparisons people have made to me are so flattering, but I think it's insensitive to the people I'm compared to.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People
  • She

• Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Live
  • Help
  • Purpose

• Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Ideas

• The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Conditions