Os Guinness Quotes

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

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• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Deserve

• When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • She
  • True

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dad

• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Government

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer.

  

  Anupam Kher
  • People

• A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• I often joke with my husband and say to him, 'You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That's all I know how to do.' LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn't expect too much from me.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Time
  • School
  • Law

• I'm such a big fan of Woody Allen. I once tried staying at the same hotel as him, hoping I would bump into him!

  

  Deepika Padukone

• I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Important

• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • Good
  • Government