Tom Rachman Quotes
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
-
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
-
I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
-
I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
-
People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
-
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
-
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
-
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
-
With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
-
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
-
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
-
Kids are very cruel to each other.
-
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
-
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
-
I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
-
As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
-
I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.
-
I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
-
I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
-
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.
