Thomas More Quotes

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Actor

• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Fate

• Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Sleep

• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Important
  • Girl

• As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Question

• When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Home

• I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Time

• I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star

• I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Period

• People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.

  

  Shakira
  • People
  • America

• Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Important
  • Live
  • Explore

• A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

  

  John Lubbock
  • Education
  • Wise

• The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Men
  • Long
  • Fall

• You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Heaven

• If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

  

  John Linder
  • Believe
  • War
  • Today

• Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Collaboration

• I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way, in a homophobic way, in a misogynistic way, and the press does not challenge them. And I'm going to be taking a very strong stance against that, and I am an artist who refuses to accept that behavior.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Running

• We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

  

  Thomas More
  • Heaven