Arthur Frederick Saunders Quotes

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Arthur Frederick Saunders

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• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
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• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
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• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • America
  • New York

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Laughter
  • Laugh
  • Knowing

• When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Focus

• He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Very

• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Own
  • Comfortable

• I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Something

• You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • God
  • Job
  • Thank God

• Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Family
  • Hurt

• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Dark

• This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Free

• There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Work
  • High
  • Hope

• I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Live
  • Why

• Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home. Now you can't really escape it. It's to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Words

• Class clowns become actors.

  

  Jasper Fforde

• And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

  

  Betty Hill
  • Knowledge
  • English
  • Walking

• Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

  

  Arthur Frederick Saunders
  • Words
  • Blessings
  • Speaker