Confucius Quotes
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
-
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
-
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
-
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
-
I remember starting out and covering songs.
-
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
-
Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
-
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
-
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
-
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
-
I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
-
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
-
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
-
I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
-
Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
-
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
-
I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
-
I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
-
In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.
-
A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
-
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. (5) tr. George Long (1888).
-
I work in a very contained environment, usually.
-
I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.
-
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
