Thomas More Quotes

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• My record speaks for itself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Record
  • Speaks
  • Itself

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • First

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Patience

• It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Up
  • Book
  • True

• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Dying
  • Smoking

• I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Long

• I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Mom

• We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world. But there are specific areas that we get excited about - areas like hard tech, deep tech, companies that deal with really difficult technology, etc.

  

  David Cohen
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

  

  Martha Raddatz

• Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.

  

  Jessica Cutler
  • People
  • Worry
  • Sex

• What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Home
  • Perfect
  • City

• Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.

  

  Donna Douglas
  • Different
  • Today

• I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Day
  • Myself

• I got so pissed I took a little poll to see if anyone was sick of gettin' taxed as much as I am. I called 100 people one night and here's the results: everyone I polled said, 'You dumb ass, it's three o'clock in the morning!' (p. 131).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Night
  • Morning

• To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Dumb

• Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • People
  • Art
  • Party

• Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

  

  Thomas More
  • Dumb
  • Despise
  • Rejects