Chris Pine Quotes

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

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• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Friendship

• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• 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

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Help
  • Government

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• 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

• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wish

• When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Play
  • English
  • Boy

• The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Care
  • Television

• I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Live
  • Die

• Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - 'Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Air

• Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Past
  • Interesting
  • Change

• I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

  

  Lynn Samuels
  • Past
  • Athlete

• At the corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the corporation is committed to.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Country

• I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Past