Bernard Beckett Quotes

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

Bernard Beckett

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• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • People
  • Politics
  • Interested

• Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Growth
  • Environmental
  • Ahead

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Real
  • Day

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
  • Generation
  • Talk

• The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • Home
  • Revolution

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Religious
  • Liberty

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Nothing
  • Because
  • Little

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Hands

• The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• 'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.

  

  Matt Reeves
  • Great
  • Real
  • Amazing

• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Work
  • Children
  • Science

• In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

  

  Ahmed Ben Bella
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Past

• The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.

  

  Prince Charles
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • School
  • Science
  • Past