Thomas More Quotes

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

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• I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Justice
  • Singing

• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Important
  • Influence
  • Debate

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Different
  • Justice
  • Matter

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Justice
  • Mercy

• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Understanding
  • Justice
  • Empathy

• I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • History
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• American influence is not what it used to be.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • American
  • Influence
  • Used

• I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfection
  • Goodness
  • Blessings

• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sun
  • Shadow
  • Goodness

• Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinion

• Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Music
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• She described herself as happy. This diagnosis did not come from any welling up of joy inside herself. It came from the observed fact, looking at herself objectively, that whenever she decided she wanted something she always got it, and what other definition of happiness could there be?

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Up
  • She
  • Happy

• Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Outside
  • Fooled
  • Appearence

• The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

  

  Thomas More
  • Justice
  • Influence
  • Force