Bill Courtney Quotes

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

Bill Courtney

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Power
  • Nature

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Start
  • Mountain

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
  • Success
  • Kind

• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Dress

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Math
  • Girls
  • PR

• Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Before

• The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Best

• For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Power
  • Together

• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Journey

• Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Memories
  • Dreams

• Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • World
  • Live
  • Education

• Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Strong

• My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Soldier
  • Weapon

• In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Strong
  • Community
  • Duty