Thomas More Quotes

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

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• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Give

• I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • German

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Wise

• Maintain a receptive attitude!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Attitude

• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Experiences
  • Obstacles

• The worst thing was having to go to school on days "Mensch, Pia!" would be on TV in the evening. My classmates made fun of me.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • School
  • Fun
  • TV

• It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Good
  • Way
  • Health

• Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

  

  Aimee Carter
  • Mean
  • Brave
  • Being Afraid

• A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

  

  E. B. White
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Dog

• He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Important
  • Father
  • Father Son

• Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.

  

  Ian Lawton
  • World
  • Hope
  • Future

• [I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • God
  • Career
  • Dream

• I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name. Carol Leifer

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

  

  Thomas More
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