Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Carrie Fisher

• Thinking
• Christmas
• Kindness

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• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • True
  • Honor

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Man
  • Peace
  • Religion

• If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Free
  • Religious

• I didn't have a childhood.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Childhood

• My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Love
  • America

• Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Lot
  • Gets
  • Cleveland

• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Work
  • Strong

• More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

  

  Lucas Papademos

• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Service

• Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Why

• I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

  

  Bindi Irwin

• Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Business

• I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Bad

• There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

  

  Antonis Samaras
  • Work
  • Stop

• I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Great
  • Movie

• Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Space
  • Religious

• Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Crazy
  • Too Much
  • Tour

• In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • America
  • Revolution
  • Revolutionary

• I believe, I truly believe, that humans will be living off of this planet, at some point in the future. It's inevitable for us, and it seems like a reasonable and realistic progression for us as a human race. We won't last on this planet - not forever.

  

  Andrew J. Feustel
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Forever

• I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Christmas
  • Kindness