Bertrand Russell Quotes

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Place
  • Resilience

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Men
  • Education

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Different
  • Live
  • Country

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Brain

• I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Worry
  • Dog
  • Pet

• Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Action
  • Easy
  • Suspense

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Age
  • You

• No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Teacher

• There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Law
  • Moral

• Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • God