Thomas More Quotes

Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• I'm curvy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Curvy

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Political
  • Earth
  • Problems

• I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

  

  Ted Bell
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• A man really determines himself by what he does.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Man
  • Really
  • Himself

• I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Movies
  • Fan
  • Zombie

• When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Punk
  • Pure

• Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Friends
  • Liberty
  • Had

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• My favorite part of modeling is backstage. Every day you work with different people, and as much as people learn about my story, I get to learn about theirs.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • May
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Religion

• I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Revenge

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

  

  Nuruddin Farah
  • American
  • Weird
  • Skinny

• Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Up
  • May
  • Death

• I'm a real woman with a real heart and I have to live with a beautiful body and a pretty face which is not nearly as easy as it sounds.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Money
  • Making
  • Selling Out

• Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

  

  Thomas More
  • May
  • Way
  • Tribulation