Brother Theodore Quotes

It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

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• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Want
  • Never
  • Results

• All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • Audience

• Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Human
  • Theatre
  • Stage

• I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Improve
  • Still
  • Lot

• We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Money
  • Back
  • Well

• Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Long
  • Money
  • May

• I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Like
  • Doing
  • I Can

• All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Point
  • Addiction
  • Terminal

• 'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Attention
  • First
  • Floating

• I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Love

• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Famous

• Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Same
  • Say
  • Psychology

• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Microsoft
  • E-mail

• For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Practice
  • Religion

• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Morals

• People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Thoughts

• Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Beginning
  • Moon

• Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Reality

• You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

  

  Cory Lidle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Air

• The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

  

  Lyn Nofziger
  • People
  • American
  • Hand

• It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

  

  Brother Theodore
  • World
  • Right
  • Wrong