Tom Atkins Quotes

We have a great need for that and great land, ... If we ask the right people to help, I think well get some help.

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Want
  • Years
  • Saying

• I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • English
  • Understand
  • Learned

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Choice

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Years
  • Baby
  • Old

• Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Find
  • Prince
  • Him

• That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.

  

  Edith Widder
  • People
  • Real
  • Problem

• It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Cool

• As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

  

  Fritz Sauckel
  • Boy
  • Sailing

• In the private sector, companies have experts running all over the place figuring out the details of how to solve particular problems, and then they share them with the rest of the organization. But in global health, global education, or global development, that’s been really difficult to do.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Education
  • Running
  • Health

• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Hate
  • Desire

• We have a great need for that and great land, ... If we ask the right people to help, I think well get some help.

  

  Tom Atkins
  • People
  • Help
  • Land