Thomas More Quotes

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • You
  • Something

• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Because
  • Scariest
  • t

• Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Looking
  • India
  • Consistent

• Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Earth
  • Single
  • Childhood

• I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

  

  Warren G. Harding

• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  

  E. M. Forster

• It is the vocation of each person to become unique.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Unique

• A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. … Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Good
  • May
  • Nature

• I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Great
  • Men
  • Remember

• Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

  

  Lawrence Durrell

• There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Control
  • Moral
  • Discipline

• A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

  

  Leon Trotsky

• Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Business
  • Law
  • Respect

• Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

  

  Chris Cooper
  • Pretty

• Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Company
  • Mentor

• But the fall of Ramadi has galvanized the Iraqi government. So, with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces, including volunteers from Sunni tribes in Anbar Province.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Training

• Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Practice

• I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

  

  Thomas More
  • Law
  • Safety
  • Devil