- The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together – in their sexual relationship.
- People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.
- I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y’know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn’t even hear my music.
- It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
- Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
- You can’t wake up one day and say ‘I’m for gay marriage,’ and wake up the next day and say ‘I’m against it.’ Wake up one day and say, ‘I’m pro-choice,’ and the next day wake up and say, ‘I’m pro-life.’ There’s no credibility there.
- And what we’ve lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
- If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.
- The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
- Every time I go and shave, I assume there’s someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, ‘I’m gonna go shave, too.’
- If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future’s ahead and not behind.
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it, A song’s not a song ’til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!
- By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
- People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
- No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
- I love doing serious movies for adults.
- A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
- Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- I agree completely with my son James when he says ‘Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge’.
- I don’t want to have a relationship with someone if I’m not going to work with them.
- We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
- Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
- Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
- Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
- I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson’s birthday party.
- Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
- I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.
- I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
- I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
- I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis – one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I’m travelling.
- Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
- Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
- Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
- Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
- I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that’s come about for a whole variety of reasons.
- Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
- When I’m in London, Claridge’s is a great favourite. I’m a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.