R. Kent Hughes Quotes
Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.
Quotes to Explore
-
I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
-
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
-
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
-
India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
-
The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
-
My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
-
Be obscure clearly.
-
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
-
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
-
Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
-
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
-
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
-
My life was pretty rough.
-
I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
-
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
-
I was never any good at keeping secrets.
-
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
-
My approach is the truth and aiming for the truth.
-
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
-
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.
-
Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .
-
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
-
Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.
