Thomas More Quotes

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

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• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Enjoy

• Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Sewing

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Men
  • Today
  • Direction

• The words of the world want to make sentences.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Want
  • Words

• You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Know

• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Female
  • Manipulate

• Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Attention
  • Criticism

• Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • People
  • Different
  • Style

• Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Good
  • Law
  • Red

• The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Good

• But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• There he heard a Lady talking,To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,-'Tis the lady Jingly Jones!On that little heap of stonesSits the Lady Jingly Jones!

  

  Edward Lear

• Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • Prayer

• La maladie est le plus écouté des médecins: à la bonté, au savoir on ne fait que promettre; on obéit à la souffrance.5

  

  Marcel Proust

• Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

  

  Martin Frost
  • Independent

• Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says "R" or "D" down there beside his name.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Important

• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• A strong, unwavering relationship between the U.S. and its allies Japan and South Korea is necessary for the national and economic security of all three countries.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer's failing. I try to make light feel like it's always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Way

• One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Smart
  • Pleasure