Thomas More Quotes

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Thomas More

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• Shining
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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Why
  • Trees

• I am a woman above everything else.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Woman

• We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Fighting

• Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Experience

• The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Done
  • Wisdom
  • Transformation

• If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs … Love for sale.

  

  Cole Porter

• Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Struggle

• Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Time
  • Country

• When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Work

• We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Violence

• A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • High School
  • Crap
  • Dressed

• If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Black
  • Crazy

• ...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Thinking

• We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Thinking
  • Problems
  • American People

• You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict. It feels good to be a good representation of the art form versus being the token tattoo girl. I'm just glad that people even consider it to be sexy, because I think I'm just a big nerd so it works out.

  

  Kat Von D
  • Thinking
  • Nerd
  • Tattoo

• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

  

  Thomas More
  • Thinking
  • Pride
  • Shining