Alfred Worden Quotes
Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
-
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
-
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
-
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
-
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
-
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
-
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
-
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
-
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
-
I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
-
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
-
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
-
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
-
There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
-
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
-
I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
-
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
-
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
-
A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.
-
I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
-
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
-
Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.
