Kevin Costner Quotes

I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

Kevin Costner

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• Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Family
  • Want

• My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Consciousness
  • Line
  • Stream

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Night
  • Down
  • Inventory

• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Clay
  • Surfaces

• It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Voice
  • Tough

• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Terrible
  • Suspense

• Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Evil
  • Generations
  • Morals

• You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Problem

• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Nothing
  • Memory
  • Fleeting

• I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Wanted
  • Albums
  • Needed

• It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Morning
  • Player
  • Mistake

• I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Religion

• You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Life
  • Path
  • Cutting

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Battle
  • Soldiers
  • Panic