Norm Phelps Quotes

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

Norm Phelps

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• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Best
  • Company
  • Longevity

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Dangerous

• The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Moment

• I love apple juice.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Love
  • Apple
  • Juice

• We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Power
  • Remember
  • System

• Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Pretty

• Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Sex
  • Champagne

• It's just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • High
  • Game

• My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Kids

• Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Time
  • Money

• I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Childhood

• 'The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.'

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Nature
  • Decision
  • Moral

• Rinnzekete bee bee nnz krr müü?ziiuu ennze, ziiuu rinnzkrrmüü,rakete bee bee,

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Bee

• Repression is the enemy of civilization - so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Today
  • Dream
  • Humanity

• The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Society

• I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's what makes you a better actor, just doing bad work and seeing what looks bad and growing from it.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Work
  • Done
  • Bad

• Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • God
  • Beginning

• It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

  

  Norm Phelps
  • Compassion
  • Pull
  • Self-Interest