Denis Boyles Quotes

If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.

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• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Home
  • You
  • Body

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Best

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Friends
  • High

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Never
  • Where

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Father
  • Screenwriter
  • Also

• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Way
  • Prayer

• Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Bad
  • History

• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • America
  • Military
  • Latin

• When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Home

• They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Dream

• 'They find us outlandish,' Lopez admitted. 'Extravagant. Eclectic. Unfathomable.'

  

  Kage Baker

• For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • People
  • World
  • Warrior

• How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Pain
  • Grief

• There's no way I can go play for the Yankees, but I know they are going to come after me hard. … It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.

  

  Johnny Damon
  • Important

• Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? There are not many husbands and wives, who can bear the charges of plaguing one another in a handsome way.

  

  John Gay
  • Money
  • Support
  • Wife

• If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.

  

  Denis Boyles
  • World
  • Pain
  • Hurt