Thomas Sowell Quotes
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
Quotes to Explore
-
My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
-
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
-
I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
-
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
-
My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
-
My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
-
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
-
Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
-
I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
-
Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
-
I mark this day with a white stone.
-
I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
-
I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father? www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s
-
Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.
-
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
-
I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.
-
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
-
There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.
-
If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
-
When the Dark Lord takes over, is he going to care how many O.W.L.s or N.E.W.T.s anyone’s got? Of course he isn’t. . . . It’ll be all about the kind of service he received, the level of devotion he was shown.
-
Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
-
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
-
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
