Thomas More Quotes

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

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• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Company
  • Gentleman
  • Pink

• I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Actor

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Old

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • First
  • Everything
  • Creation

• From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Know

• When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'

  

  Hans Haacke
  • World
  • Art

• We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Struggle

• So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Moments

• Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Decision

• I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Society

• I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Parents

• Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • May
  • Peace
  • Action

• I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.

  

  Keith Moon The Who
  • People

• When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Life
  • Live
  • Character

• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Magic

• A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Character
  • Enough