Richard Whately Quotes

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Richard Whately

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• If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • High
  • Dance
  • Then

• The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Find
  • Grace

• It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Bad

• I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • History
  • Wall

• If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'

  

  James Comey
  • Time
  • She

• There is a large element of me in every role I do.

  

  Bruce Campbell

• It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Good
  • May
  • Beautiful

• Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Money
  • Past
  • Singing

• I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on.

  

  Kelly Macdonald

• I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Success

• I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work

• Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

  

  Francoise Sagan
  • Life
  • Time

• Freak diets I don't think work. It's control.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Work
  • Control

• I'm always for the person who speaks their mind.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Mind

• It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Great

• Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Single
  • Evil

• Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Violence
  • Method
  • Justified

• I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • Selfish

• Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

  

  Katherine Applegate
  • Humans
  • Selfish
  • Passionate

• We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Powerful

• A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Selfish
  • Pursuing
  • Neglecting