Thomas More Quotes

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Technology
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Face
  • Without
  • Brand

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Think
  • Question

• For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Life
  • Character
  • Me

• I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Live
  • Job
  • Night

• The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Religious

• When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Action
  • Evil

• I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Writing

• Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Today
  • Pretty
  • Animal

• I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Time
  • Live
  • Dad

• I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

  

  Andy Williams
  • Business

• The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.

  

  Gene Weingarten
  • Mind

• The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

  

  William Ames
  • Mind
  • Virtue
  • Contentment

• I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

  

  David Ginola

• No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • God
  • Mean
  • Valentine's Day

• Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

  

  Thomas More
  • Mind
  • Enemy