Brian Oldfield Quotes

When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me.

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• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

  

  Om Puri
  • Man
  • Feelings
  • Young Man

• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • God
  • inspirational

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • God
  • Need
  • Hell

• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • More

• Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • God
  • Book

• Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • God
  • Goals
  • Beyond

• Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Long
  • True

• My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • God

• Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God
  • Universe

• The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Man

• God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God

• Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • God
  • Future
  • Sleep

• My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • God
  • Parents

• I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • People
  • Kids
  • Mother

• One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

  

  Confucius
  • Move
  • Mountains
  • Stones

• This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Courage
  • Anonymous
  • Twitter

• My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Life
  • She
  • Book

• When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me.

  

  Brian Oldfield
  • God
  • Man