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

• 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

• 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

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Men
  • Mad

• I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Music

• Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Law

• Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • Why
  • Hurt

• All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Today
  • Motherhood

• The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • System
  • Understood
  • Programmers

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

  

  Thomas More
  • Law
  • Safety
  • Devil