Thomas More Quotes

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Job
  • Experience

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Me
  • Action

• I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Up
  • Smile
  • Jump

• Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Personality

• When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Singing
  • Goal
  • Professional

• I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• I ask you to join me in saying that enough is enough with Liberal arrogance and scandals and enough to the vote-buying promises of the Conservatives. There's a better choice, a third option, the NDP

  

  Jack Layton
  • Option

• For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Discipline

• The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but above all for others - those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Life
  • High
  • Hand

• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life

• You will not have forgotten that it was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody.' That's the maxim to go through life with!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Father

• If I want to act, I'm gonna act. And if I consider myself an actor, that's all that matters to me.

  

  Kian Lawley

• Oh my God, I sweat so much! You have to keep deodorant in your purse and use those deodorising wipes that cool you off a bit.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • God
  • Cool

• I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Focus

• If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Way
  • Allowed
  • Commenced

• Earth's sweat, the sea.

  

  Empedocles
  • Sea
  • Sweat
  • Earths

• Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Death

• When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • Men
  • Women

• Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Men
  • Desire

• An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Known