Gene Hackman The Firm Quotes & Sayings

After all, looking around, we see bodies, not naked genes. Bodies, bodies everywhere: eating, sleeping, being eaten, growing, reproducing, laughing, lounging, walking, running, swimming, hopping and slithering their way to...what? To either success or failure, as measured by how well they project their component genes into the future. — Nanelle Barash

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. — Fernando Pessoa

When we are truly aware of great abundance in our life, feel grateful and express gratitude for those treasures and beauty, then we are fully living. — Debasish Mridha

There's no glory like those who save their country. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters. — Carl Sagan

The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up. — Jerry Jeff Walker

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth. — Jeb Bush

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest — Adam Braun

The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one. — Marilynne Robinson

I've been arrested - spent time in lockup with genuinely dangerous guys. I've been in street fights without rules where no one was coming to break it up - and I've won. I've conquered the insurmountable challenge of earning a law degree and dealing with the self-centered jackasses who are my clients without committing aggravated assault. It's a diaper. How hard could it be? I — Emma Chase

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it. — Joyce Carol Oates

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record. — Beck

Without asking, he moved behind her and brushed her hair over her shoulder. Drawing the necklace around her neck, he fastened the clasp. The amber felt cool against her sweltering skin. Lifting it, she rotated the pendant, watching as it caught the light. "It's lovely." Before she could change her mind, she dug into her pocket and shoved the rest of the coins into his hand. — Amber Argyle