Catherine the Great Quotes

The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.

Catherine the Great

• Liberty
• Safety
• Equality
• Laws
• Citizens

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• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • She
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Political
  • Me

• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Life
  • May
  • Hope

• When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Know
  • Say
  • Just

• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Deep
  • Friendship
  • Roots

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Generation

• That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Way
  • Heroic

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • You
  • Brother
  • Him

• All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Law

• I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Culture

• The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Personality

• My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Heart
  • Humanity
  • Readiness

• If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Ugly
  • Building
  • Sanity

• I'd love to make a thriller.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Make
  • Thriller

• We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Complaining
  • Agitation

• The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Liberty
  • Safety
  • Equality