Bela H. Banathy Quotes

The degree to which they are a community is marked by the degree of effort they devote to attain their purpose, the degree of their commitment to it, and the degree of their commitment to each other.

Bela H. Banathy

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Me
  • Couple

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Support
  • Technology
  • Commitment

• I can always go back to education.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Education
  • Always
  • Back

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Landscape

• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Violence
  • Anger
  • Last

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Worth It
  • Not Worth It

• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Nature
  • Wish
  • Universe

• When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Out
  • Island
  • Struggles

• I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Training
  • Fight
  • Performance

• To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Clear

• With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Love
  • Impossible
  • Patience

• My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Kids
  • Special
  • Surprise

• The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Power
  • Communication

• The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Blue

• I am a standup comedian who has performed comedy in the Middle East in front of thousands of Muslims. And believe it or not, they laughed at plenty, especially when we poked fun at local culture. The Lebanese loved it when you would make fun of their driving and how, in Lebanon, a red light is just a suggestion to stop.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Culture

• Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Father

• When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Business
  • Running

• We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • May
  • Hate
  • Identity

• The degree to which they are a community is marked by the degree of effort they devote to attain their purpose, the degree of their commitment to it, and the degree of their commitment to each other.

  

  Bela H. Banathy
  • Community
  • Purpose
  • Commitment