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

• I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Community

• Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?

  

  Albert Claude
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

  

  Debbie Allen
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Period

• A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.

  

  James Joyce
  • Career
  • Service

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

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Eternity