Tom G. Palmer Quotes
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.
-
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
-
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
-
Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
-
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
-
I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
-
People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
-
It's really great to see fans all over the world.
-
I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.
-
Marriage is a great institution.
-
The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.
-
I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.
-
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.
-
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
-
The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)
-
There is nothing more dangerous than security.
-
Everything does go in a circle.
-
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
-
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
-
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
-
DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
-
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
