Thomas More Quotes

The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

Thomas More

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• God bless nannies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • God
  • Bless
  • God Bless

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Long
  • Value
  • Creation

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Friends
  • Marriage
  • Spring

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • True
  • Philosophy
  • Nothing

• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Couple
  • Hearts
  • Collection

• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal
  • Take
  • Middle East

• As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Amazing

• I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Home
  • Discipline

• When an organization is willing to support only lawmakers who are with it 100 percent of the time, it virtually guarantees that the debate will be bitterly partisan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Support
  • Organization

• I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Different
  • Love
  • Myself

• But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Control
  • Need
  • First

• Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Business
  • Write
  • First

• Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

  

  Babasaheb
  • True
  • Responsibility
  • Religious

• And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Passion

• No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Alive

• It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • Serious

• He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

  

  Thomas More
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Opinion