Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Tommy Lee Jones

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• The only power you have is the word no.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Power
  • You
  • Word

• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Me
  • Class
  • Citizenship

• Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Decisions

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • True
  • Picture

• I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Doing

• Many people are insecure of many people.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Many
  • Insecure

• I have a very strong belief in God.

  

  M. Ward
  • God
  • Strong
  • Belief

• Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • End
  • Globalization

• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Team
  • New

• 'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Father
  • Gold
  • Right

• When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Way
  • Got

• Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Work
  • Black
  • Responsibility

• The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • World
  • Future
  • Literature

• For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work

• When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • People
  • Life

• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Road
  • Years
  • Enemy

• If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Morning
  • Kindness
  • Politeness