Thomas Hardy Quotes
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
Quotes to Explore
-
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
-
Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
-
I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
-
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
-
People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
-
For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
-
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
-
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
-
Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
-
It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
-
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
-
I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.
-
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
-
Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.
-
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
-
The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.
-
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
-
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
