Tom Hollander Quotes

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Tom Hollander

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• Complacency
• Aspiration
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• Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Live
  • Government
  • Find

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Attitude

• Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Job
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • History
  • Friend
  • Speak

• The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

  

  Kate Klise
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Food

• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Poverty
  • Confused

• I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

  

  John Corbett
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

  

  John Randolph
  • Time

• You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'

  

  John Hurt
  • Confidence
  • Silence

• My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

  

  Danielle de Niese
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Teenager

• My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

  

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III
  • Work
  • Money
  • Home

• There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Thinking
  • Shopping
  • Quit

• Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Use

• “Remain in Me." It is the Word of God who gives this order, expresses this wish. Remain in Me, not for a few moments, a few hours which must pass away, but "remain . . ." permanently, habitually, Remain in Me, pray in Me, adore in Me, love in Me, suffer in Me, work and act in Me.

  

  Elizabeth of the Trinity
  • Love
  • Pray
  • Suffer

• In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Real
  • True
  • Value

• The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.

  

  Nina Conti
  • Control
  • Satisfaction
  • Gig

• Satisfaction is the death of ambition.

  

  Nikki Yanofsky
  • Death
  • Ambition
  • Satisfaction

• My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.'

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Beautiful
  • Musicians
  • Indian

• For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Satisfaction
  • Complacency
  • Aspiration