Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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He wasn’t afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important.
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The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.
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I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.
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I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
