Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

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• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • American
  • President

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Live
  • Greatest

• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Great
  • You
  • Year

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

  

  Hal Price
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Fight

• Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Long
  • Business

• There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Television

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Liberty

• The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Present

• Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • People
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

  

  Kim Dickens
  • Trying
  • City
  • Waiting

• I have so much love to give. That's why, when I was single, I talked about being married and wanting to have children so much. I have so much love that's been poured into me, by my family, my friends, strangers! Once I put myself on a national platform to be an actress and singer, so much love gets poured into me that I just exude all of that love! So, really, it's just a residual effect of what you guys are giving me. I'm overflowing!

  

  Brely Evans
  • Children
  • Love
  • Married

• It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

  

  Vir Das
  • People
  • Life
  • Standup

• If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Legacy