Tertullian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
-
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
-
My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
-
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
-
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
-
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
-
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
-
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
-
I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
-
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
-
When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
-
Politics ruins the character.
-
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
-
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
-
For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
-
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
-
I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
-
I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
-
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
-
What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
-
The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.
-
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights - the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation - the right to breathe air as nature provided it - the right of future generations to a healthy existence?
-
I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.
-
Fear is the foundation of safety.
