Barbara Corcoran Quotes
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
-
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
-
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
-
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
-
In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
-
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
-
If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
-
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
-
I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
-
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
-
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
-
Africa is the future.
-
My instinct is to be very controlling.
-
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
-
I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
-
What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
-
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
-
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
-
When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
-
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
-
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
-
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
-
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
