Richard Steele Quotes

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

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• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • You
  • Never
  • Model

• I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Power
  • Difference
  • Dumb

• I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Perfect

• Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Government

• I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Energy
  • Doing
  • Excited

• Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.

  

  Eamon Duffy
  • Heart
  • History
  • Past

• All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Party

• Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.

  

  S.C. Stephens
  • Passion
  • Trust
  • Friendship

• I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Fall
  • Literature
  • Horse

• I am confident that whatever testing is performed on these items, it will substantiate that Mr. Westfall has done nothing wrong and is in no way responsible for Ms. Jones' disappearance. Mr. Westfall and his family ... continue to pray for Ms. Jones' safe return.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Confident
  • Testing
  • Performed

• Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

  

  William Osler
  • Long
  • Habit
  • Repetition

• I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

  

  Plutarch
  • Veil
  • Hath
  • Hitherto

• I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my passion - all were behind the scariest door of all time. Since that day, this remains exactly true: Fear never leaves. But the way we handle it can always change.

  

  Carl Lentz
  • Fear
  • Change
  • Never

• Without destruction there is no creation... there is no change.

  

  Oda Nobunaga
  • Changes
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Gun

• Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

  

  Richard Steele
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