Dolly Parton Quotes

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • World
  • Taken
  • Humanity

• It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Process
  • Sacrifice

• Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Home
  • Water
  • Garden

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Why
  • Home

• Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • World
  • Believe
  • Business

• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • World
  • Death
  • Fear

• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • World
  • Home
  • Help

• In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • World
  • Power
  • Value

• People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • Home
  • Me

• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • World
  • God

• He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World

• You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

  

  Paul Allen
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Home

• I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Family
  • Home

• My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

  

  Emma Rigby
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that's why we love it.

  

  David Farr
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • War
  • Question
  • Travel

• I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • History
  • Albums

• If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Work
  • Book
  • Sea

• I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

  

  James P. Moran
  • Work
  • Different
  • Wife

• I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • World
  • Home