Tom Hanks Quotes

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

Tom Hanks

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• Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Money
  • Parents

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• I'd like to be curvier.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Angels
  • Miracles

• The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Group

• Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Book
  • True
  • Future

• In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • Air
  • Human
  • Wings

• Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Effort
  • Gold

• The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Morning
  • Start
  • Coffee

• I feel like a lot of fans would like to see me with the heavyweight championship.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Feel
  • See
  • Fans

• A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Lie

• I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Words
  • Control
  • Scary

• I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • World
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Broken

• I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • People
  • God
  • Horses

• Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Life
  • God