Thomas Ken Quotes

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

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• I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Happy
  • Gay
  • Boat

• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • End
  • Just Because

• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Long
  • Money
  • Business

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Everything
  • Servant
  • Delay

• Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Place
  • Liberal

• It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Always
  • Role

• I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Perfect
  • Things
  • Stupid

• Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Chinese

• If I see an ending, I can work backward.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Work

• I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

  

  Jim Talent
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Men
  • Political
  • Strong

• This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Dog

• It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.

  

  Jake Tapper

• We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

  

  Pico Iyer

• Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Books

• It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beginning

• Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Philosopher

• I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.

  

  Jessie J
  • Confidence

• Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Eternity