Thomas More Quotes

Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

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• The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Science
  • Changing

• When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Police

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Society

• I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Why
  • Me

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Man
  • Strange

• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Happy
  • Training
  • Mission

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Wanted
  • Direct
  • Script

• Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Life
  • Money
  • Goal

• You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Great
  • House

• Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Moral

• Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Alone
  • Waiting
  • Baby

• Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Help

• Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

  

  Alex Berenson

• I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Different
  • Boat
  • Titanic

• Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Political

• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Doubt
  • Civilization
  • Excellence

• I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.

  

  Janet Reno

• Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

  

  Thomas More
  • World
  • Important
  • Gold