Iain Pears Quotes

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

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• For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Effort
  • Same

• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Think
  • Justice
  • Looking

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Want
  • Words
  • Body

• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Deep
  • Queen
  • Purple

• For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Long
  • Live
  • Experience

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Woman
  • Teacher
  • Doctor

• I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Always
  • Her

• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Action
  • September
  • Iran

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Judge

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Home

• Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Children
  • Feel
  • Loved

• I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Devil
  • Numbers
  • Majority

• The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Power
  • Devil

• The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Liberty
  • Corruption
  • Colonists

• If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • History
  • Violence
  • Mankind

• The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

  

  Iain Pears
  • Devil
  • Mankind
  • Corruption