Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

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• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• Tenderness is a virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Tenderness

• I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Stop
  • Woman
  • First

• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Remember

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Pretend
  • Smarter
  • Cooler

• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Bible

• It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Experience

• One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Beautiful
  • Beach

• Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Death
  • Bureaucracy

• If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Hope
  • Identity

• Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Soul
  • Father

• The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

  

  Neville Marriner

• I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Dirty

• For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Words

• I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

  

  Amber Heard

• I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

  

  Bruce Greenwood
  • Guy
  • Serious

• Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  

  Socrates
  • Immortality
  • Sincerity
  • Serenity

• Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Today
  • Single

• The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Reason

• There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

  

  Robert Phillips
  • Believe
  • Stage