Carstin Classic Marble Quotes & Sayings

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion. — Idris Elba

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it's often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one's own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. — Adrian Tan

She sees me once in a guy's arms and she has us married already. I wonder what Raffe would think of my mom being his mother-in-law. — Susan Ee

The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when. — Bobby Rahal

I think rock records tend to be very expensive. — Andy Summers

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well. — Kyla Pratt

Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners. — Michael S. Horton

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt. — Umar

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out. — Gore Vidal

Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities. — J. Richard Singleton

Although she was not conventionally beautiful, she was so original that it rendered the question of beauty inconsequential. — Lisa Kleypas

He talks of the life that will come from his own death, and he promises that life will flow to us in thousands of small ways as we die to our egos, our pride, our need to be right, our self-sufficiency, our rebellion, and our stubborn insistence that we deserve to get our way. When we cling with white knuckles to our sins and our hostility, we're like a tree that won't let its leaves go. There can't be a spring if we're still stuck in the fall. Lose your life and find it, he says. That's how the world works. — Rob Bell

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I think we should drill up in Alaska. — Joe Barton

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason. — Dag Hammarskjold