Regnumveritatis's Quotes

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

The wildest colts make the best horses.

– Plutarch  Famous Quote

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

– Plutarch  Famous Quote

I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

– Florence Nightingale  Famous Quote

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

If it's immorally wrong, it's not normal.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

There was, in fact, a standard studio recipe. Take one young actress, pluck her eyebrows, cap her teeth, shape her hairline, pad as required and throw her into the ring with Andy Hardy. Then wait and see. If the public responded, the starlet became a star.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Everything is about looking for happiness and God.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Clark Gable once said to me, 'Acting school?' [If you go,] I'll kill ya!

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

You shouldn’t be told you’re completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It’s too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you’ve taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you’ve taken too many.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

Time won’t stop and life won’t stand still. But I have a feeling that if I just look backward once in a while at Dorothy, if I am off beat in any way, I’ll get back on the soundtrack again. . . .

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

I’ve been treated brutally by the press, but I’ll be damned if I’ll have my audience mistreated.”

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

People think of me as a neurotic kid, full of fits and depressions, biting my fingernails to the bone, living under an eternal shadow of illness and collapse. Why do people insist on seeing an aura of tragedy around me always? My life isn’t tragic at all. I laugh a lot these days. At myself, too. Lord, if I couldn’t laugh at myself I don’t think I’d be alive.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

I don’t associate Frances Gumm with me—she’s a girl I can read about the way other people do. I, Judy Garland, was born when I was twelve years old.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

Ever since The Wizard of Oz I’ve been accused of being twelve years old. You should see some of the disappointed looks I get, when people lay eyes on me in person. They expect someone in gingham, with braids, to come out singing ‘Over the Rainbow.’ And out I come, instead.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

Actors live in a queer sort of double world. Not many of us have the names or identities we were born with.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

Real religion is in your mind and heart, and can’t be judged by the number of times you go to church.”

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

I think we just live in a time of the selfie. So there's a sense that everyone's uniqueness and importance on this planet should be displayed and reveled in, and that there's kind of a piece of glory for everyone.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

The mythic journey is always about selflessness

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

Therapy's like going to the gym.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

– Chris Pine  Famous Quote

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

– Orson Welles  Famous Quote

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

– Orson Welles  Famous Quote

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

– Orson Welles  Famous Quote

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

– Orson Welles  Famous Quote

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story.

– Mickey Rooney  Famous Quote

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery: You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

– Judy Garland  Famous Quote

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

– Christopher Reeve  Famous Quote

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they’re more paralyzed than I am.

– Christopher Reeve  Famous Quote

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

– Christopher Reeve  Famous Quote

God, if you exist behind the Holy Scriptures then you have abandoned me. In war hundreds are killed and tortured and they are left there to rot and feed the vultures. And yet, we glorify our warriors. We give them laurel wreaths and honors. But all I get is torment, I cannot be humiliated this way. Give me an illness that will kill me fast. I cannot do it myself, I must go to heaven. Amen.

– Elizabeth Báthory  Famous Quote

I wish I had been born a man, I would have killed thousands in battle, taken over countries, burned witches - I would have been a hero.

– Elizabeth Báthory  Famous Quote

Man has created God in his image which gives him dominance over everything else: Birds, lions, trees and women.

– Elizabeth Báthory  Famous Quote

Do I look like someone who cares about what God thinks?

– Elizabeth Báthory  Famous Quote

The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty. Love of this beauty proceeds from God and descends into our souls and goes out to God present in the universe. It too is something like a sacrament.

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

– Simone Weil  Famous Quote

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

– Vivien Leigh  Famous Quote

Every villain is a hero in their own mind.

– Tom Hiddleston  Famous Quote

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Hypocrisy, is when individuals become abnoxiously contradicting, unrealistically criticizing the government of South Sudan, yet are part of the puzzle underneath the Salva Kiir's regime.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm Possible!

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”

– Audrey Hepburn  Famous Quote

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... They are the dictator inside ourselves.

– Denis Villeneuve  Famous Quote

I think a good director is a good listener.

– Denis Villeneuve  Famous Quote

I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.

– Denis Villeneuve  Famous Quote

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

– Denis Villeneuve  Famous Quote

There's a sense in American cinema: you want to portray an ideal world. You want to portray a Utopia. That's good- dreams for a better world, to advocate for something better, yes. But if you look at my movies, they are exploring today's shadows.

– Denis Villeneuve  Famous Quote

The classical liberal is someone who stands for freedom, for liberty and for liberation. What we see today within the American academy is the shutting down of ideas. We see ideological fascism rather than academic freedom. The conservative voice is actually more classically liberal because we’re arguing for an open, robust exchange of ideas. Why? Because we can trust truth to judge the debate rather than politics or power.”

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

Attack Guns on the floor of congress and all hell breaks loose.  Attack God on the floor of the Dem National Convention and we elect the party that does it. 

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

Can we not see that without God, government always steps in to fill the vacuum and where there is more government there is always less freedom?  

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

Restrict high capacity magazines and clips and we say “over my dead body.”  Restrict the Body of Christ and we say little to nothing.

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

Calling sin righteous and righteousness sin will always bear consequences.

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

We seem to be ready to go to war at the loss of our right to own a gun but yet we sit back quietly at the loss of our right to worship our God as we see fit.

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a 'safe place,' but rather a place to learn: to learn that life isn't about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that's wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that's wrong with them,

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

History has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of self-evident truths grounded in the laws of nature and nature's God, every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

You see, good education—complete education—liberal education must be grounded in the conservative respect for and the conservation of what is immutable and right and just and real. It should seek to reclaim what has been co-opted and to reveal what has been compromised. It should be free of intimidation and should honor open inquiry and the right to dissent. It should have confidence in the measuring rod of Truth—that unalienable standard that is bigger and better than the crowd or the consensus. Education—good, liberal education—is the business of pursuing Truth. It”

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

Take away his guns and he will use a sword. Take away his sword and he will use a club. Take away his club and he will use a rock. When you take away a culture's soul, there is nothing to stop the evil that lurks in human's heart. You can outlaw guns, swords, clubs and rocks but without the Gospel we are all still broken and angry men filled with hatred and rage.

– Everett Piper  Famous Quote

I feel profound sorrow in leaving my poor children: you know that I only lived for them and for you, my good and tender sister. You who out of love have sacrificed everything to be with us, in what a position do I leave you!

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one's own family?

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, for such is only for criminals, but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness in my last moments.

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

I pardon all my enemies the evils that they have done me. I bid farewell to my aunts and to all my brothers and sisters. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

I die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy.

– Marie Antoniette  Famous Quote

die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy.

– Marie Antoniette  Famous Quote

Somehow Luke understood - in a way that Lando never had, that Hand and Leia and Chewbacca had simply never grasped - just how dark a place the universe really was. Lando guessed that was where Luke got his humility. His kindness. His gentle faith that people could change for the better. That must have been why he rarely smiled, and almost never made jokes. Because the goodness was all he really had. It was his lifeline. The rope to which he clung, dangling over the abyss.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

If you have to justify an action, you probably shouldn’t have done it in the first place

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches. There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see. And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade. They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone. And I name this saying wisdom.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty... Each of us is the sum of our scars.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality.

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars.”

– Matthew Stover  Famous Quote

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

– Maureen O'Hara  Famous Quote

Being an Irishwoman means many things to me. An Irishwoman is strong and feisty. She has guts and stands up for what she believes in. She believes she is the best at whatever she does and proceeds through life with that knowledge. She can face any hazard that life throws her way and stay with it until she wins. She is loyal to her kinsmen and accepting of others. She's not above a sock in the jaw if you have it coming.

– Maureen O'Hara  Famous Quote

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

– John Wayne  Famous Quote

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

– John Wayne  Famous Quote

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity.

– John Wayne  Famous Quote

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

– John Wayne  Famous Quote

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

– John Wayne  Famous Quote

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had; their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

– James Stewart  Famous Quote

It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.

– James Stewart  Famous Quote

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

– James Stewart  Famous Quote

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

– James Stewart  Famous Quote

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too.

– James Stewart  Famous Quote

I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

– Gregory Peck  Famous Quote

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

– Gregory Peck  Famous Quote

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

– Gregory Peck  Famous Quote

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

– Gregory Peck  Famous Quote

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

– Gregory Peck  Famous Quote

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

– Yul Brynner  Famous Quote

I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

A war put off is not a war avoided.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

Gregory Peck was one of those few great actors of generosity, humor, toughness and spirit. From our fight scene in The Big Country (1958) to his willingness to stand up for what he believed personally, Gregory Peck faced life's challenges with great vigor and courage.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

Mainstream America is depending on you - counting on you - to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand, while they seek preference with the other.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

I marched for civil rights with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963 - long before Hollywood found it fashionable. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite. Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the assault weapons of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as assault weapons

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

– Charlton Heston  Famous Quote

We create a persona, a building holding all the apartments that are our quirks and our dreams and our desires, and we walk around the world hoping to connect, but hoping, above all, to not be hurt.

– Marlon Brando  Famous Quote

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

– Vivien Leigh  Famous Quote

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

– Vivien Leigh  Famous Quote

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

– Vivien Leigh  Famous Quote

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.

– Mary Todd Lincoln  Famous Quote

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

– Mary Todd Lincoln  Famous Quote

It pleased God thus to act through a simple maid in order to turn back the King's enemies.

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

You have been with your counsel and I have been with mine. Believe me that the counsel of my Lord will be accomplished and will stand, and this counsel of yours will perish.

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

I fear nothing but treachery.

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

It lies with the Lord to make revelations to whom He pleases.

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

– Mark Twain  Famous Quote

Self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

– Catherine The Great  Famous Quote

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

– Catherine The Great  Famous Quote

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

– Catherine The Great  Famous Quote

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

– Catherine The Great  Famous Quote

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

– Catherine The Great  Famous Quote

It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

– Catherine The Great  Famous Quote

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

– Peter The Great  Famous Quote

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

– Cardinal Richelieu  Famous Quote

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

– Cardinal Richelieu  Famous Quote

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

– Cardinal Richelieu  Famous Quote

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat.

– Louis XIV of France  Famous Quote

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

– Louis XIV of France  Famous Quote

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

– Napoleon Bonaparte  Famous Quote

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

– Alexander The Great  Famous Quote

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

– Alexander The Great  Famous Quote

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

– Alexander The Great  Famous Quote

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

– Alexander The Great  Famous Quote

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

– Alexander The Great  Famous Quote

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

– Joan Of Arc  Famous Quote

It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

If you weaken the monarchy, you undermine the entire nation.

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

I am calm, as people are whose conscience are clear.

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.

– Marie Antoinette  Famous Quote

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

– Auguste Rodin  Famous Quote

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

– Auguste Rodin  Famous Quote

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

– Auguste Rodin  Famous Quote

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

– Edgar Degas  Famous Quote

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

– Edgar Degas  Famous Quote

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

– Edgar Degas  Famous Quote

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

– Edgar Degas  Famous Quote

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

– Claude Monet  Famous Quote

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

– Claude Monet  Famous Quote

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

– Claude Monet  Famous Quote

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

– Claude Monet  Famous Quote

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

– Claude Monet  Famous Quote

It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.

– Claude Monet  Famous Quote

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems].”

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.” ― Vincent van Gogh

– Vincent Van Gogh  Famous Quote

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

– Patrick Henry  Famous Quote

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

– Patrick Henry  Famous Quote

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

– Patrick Henry  Famous Quote

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

– Abigail Adams  Famous Quote

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

– Abigail Adams  Famous Quote

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

– Abigail Adams  Famous Quote

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

– Abigail Adams  Famous Quote

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

– Mary Todd Lincoln  Famous Quote

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

– Mary Todd Lincoln  Famous Quote

A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

– William J. H. Boetcker  Famous Quote

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

– William J. H. Boetcker  Famous Quote

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

– William J. H. Boetcker  Famous Quote

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

– William J. H. Boetcker  Famous Quote

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

– William J. H. Boetcker  Famous Quote

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

– William J. H. Boetcker  Famous Quote

A lucky thing Eva Perón was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

– Vivien Leigh  Famous Quote

Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?

– Vivien Leigh  Famous Quote

I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory.

– Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind  Famous Quote

Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.

– Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind  Famous Quote

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

– Vivien Leigh  Famous Quote

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

– Joan Fontaine  Famous Quote

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident.... Is this not form?”

– Giacomo Puccini  Famous Quote

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!”

– Giacomo Puccini  Famous Quote

How the stars shone. How sweet the earth smelled. The orchard gate creaked, and a footstep pressed on the sand. And she entered, fragrant as a flower, and fell into my arms. Oh, sweet kisses, lingering caresses. Slowly, trembling, I gazed upon her beauty. Now my dream of true love is lost forever. My last hour has flown, and I die, hopeless, and never have I loved life more.”

– Giacomo Puccini  Famous Quote

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

– Giacomo Puccini  Famous Quote

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

– Maria Callas  Famous Quote

Success can be harder to take than failure in a lot of ways. It brings with it a responsibility. You have to learn that all the highs don't last forever. For every high, there's a corresponding low. It's why young kids often go to pieces. When they get so popular they can't go out of their hotel rooms, that's when they turn to drugs. Success can be very dangerous, very heady.

– Howard Keel  Famous Quote

You should never envy anyone. One day you might be in that person's position and it might not be so nice.

– Howard Keel  Famous Quote

Any time you get in an area that takes a great deal of skill, you'll find that the tendrils are much more sensitive. People talk about actors being temperamental, but that sort of thing is everywhere.

– Howard Keel  Famous Quote

As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.

– Julie Andrews  Famous Quote

Bette Davis was always marvelous.

– Julie Andrews  Famous Quote

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

– Paul Newman  Famous Quote

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

– Paul Newman  Famous Quote

Someone called actors sculptors in snow. Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

– Vincent Price  Famous Quote

Suddenly in the '50s, a whole new group of actors came out: Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman, who were very moody and realistic. So actors like myself and Basil Rathbone and so on didn't really fit into those realistic dramas and we began to do costume pictures. This was really the only place we could go on working if we wanted to survive as actors. Most of the things of my later career have been costume pictures. They require a certain knowledge of the language, they require enunciation and a poetic approach to the language. Really, the one thing we have over the apes is our language, isn't it? That's about all.

– Vincent Price  Famous Quote

Hollywood's worst fault is typecasting. John Wayne, Cary Grant, everyone who's been a success - we all had the same problem. And they tell me I'm too important to play small character roles; you can't win!

– Vincent Price  Famous Quote

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

– Vincent Price  Famous Quote

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

– Kim Novak  Famous Quote

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

– Ferdinand Marcos  Famous Quote

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

– Mark Hamill  Famous Quote

I debated in high school: If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.

– Mark Hamill  Famous Quote

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.

– Mark Hamill  Famous Quote

Nothing so concentrates the mind as the sight of the gallows.

– Samuel Johnson  Famous Quote

Painting is silent poetry.

– Plutarch  Famous Quote

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

– Giuseppe Verdi  Famous Quote

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Famous Quote

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Famous Quote

Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.

– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Famous Quote

I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.

– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Famous Quote

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

– Joan Sutherland  Famous Quote

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

– Enrico Caruso  Famous Quote

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

– Enrico Caruso  Famous Quote

I know that I shall sing only a certain number of times. So I think to myself, Tonight I will hold back my voice. I will save it a little and that will mean I may be able to sing a few more times. But when I go before the audience, when I hear the music and begin to sing, I cannot hold back. I give the best there is in me - I give all.

– Enrico Caruso  Famous Quote

When you speak of tenors, you have to divide them into two groups. Caruso in the first group. All the others are in the second.

– Rosa Ponselle  Famous Quote

I have encountered three miracles - Enrico Caruso, Tita Ruffo and Rosa Ponselle.  

– Tullio Serafin  Famous Quote

In the surroundings of an opera performance, once I am deep in it, I am living it. Between the acts and in my dressing room to change costumes, I do not realize I am Rosa Ponselle. I seem instead to be Aida, Gioconda, Norma--the woman I am singing. And when the last curtain falls, I am a rag--but contented.

– Rosa Ponselle  Famous Quote

Power's not a chalice. It's a hammer. And it only does one thing. Power smashes. The subtext of all power is extortion. It's always the threat of force, of imprisonment, the threat of death. Always.”

– Adam Skelter  Famous Quote

A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.”

– T.F Hodge  Famous Quote

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

– Alan Moore  Famous Quote

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

– Bette Davis  Famous Quote

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

– Betty Grable  Famous Quote

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.

– Betty Grable  Famous Quote

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

– Ginger Rogers  Famous Quote

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

– Ginger Rogers  Famous Quote

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen

– Ginger Rogers  Famous Quote

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

– Olivia de Havilland  Famous Quote

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

– Olivia de Havilland  Famous Quote

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

– Tyrone Power  Famous Quote

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

– Tyrone Power  Famous Quote

The secret of charm is bullshit.

– Tyrone Power  Famous Quote

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

– Josiah Gilbert Holland  Famous Quote

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

– Henry Ward Beecher  Famous Quote

There's no chains to hold you now. Break out those sails and watch them fill with the wind that's carrying us all to freedom!

– Dr. Peter Blood  Famous Quote

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.

– Thomas Becket  Famous Quote

While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.”

– Arthur Rimbaud  Famous Quote

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!”

– Arthur Rimbaud  Famous Quote

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

– Victor Hugo, Les Miserables  Famous Quote

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.”

– Victor Hugo  Famous Quote

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”

– Victor Hugo  Famous Quote

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”

– Victor Hugo  Famous Quote

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”

– Victor Hugo  Famous Quote

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

– Victor Hugo  Famous Quote

Don't give up the ship in a storm because you cannot hold back the winds.”

– Sir Thomas More  Famous Quote

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.”

– Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1  Famous Quote

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

– Sir Thomas More  Famous Quote

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

– Sir Thomas More  Famous Quote

Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.

– Terry Goodkind,  Famous Quote

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.”

– Terry Goodkind,  Famous Quote

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.”

– Terry Goodkind  Famous Quote

Sometimes, that’s all life is: one desperate act after another.

– Terry Goodkind,  Famous Quote