Haloti Ngata Quotes & Sayings

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. — Herbert Spencer

when I stare at myself for a really long time, I stop looking human. The way that a word starts to seem unreal as you repeat it, my face unravels. — Ainslie Hogarth

It is not a sin to be happy. Half a dozen exercises and an attentive ear are enough to allow us to realize our most impossible dreams. Because of my pride in wisdom, you made me walk the Road that every person can walk, and discover what everyone else already knows if they have paid the slightest attention to life. You made me see that the search for happiness is a personal search and not a model we can pass on to others.
... I have walked to many miles to discover things I already knew, things that all of us know but that are so hard to accept. Is there anything harder for us ... than discovering that we can achieve the power? ... Few can accept the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they see that they can be realized. They refuse to fight the good fight because they do not know what to do with their own happiness; they are imprisoned by the things of the world. — Paulo Coelho

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed. — Paulina Porizkova

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. — Freddie Mercury

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. — Jodie Foster

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist. — Sylvia Earle

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies! — Stephen Sondheim

I mean, in any case, that when you really feel something, you face the difficulty of expressing it. And that, after all, forms your style. — Giorgos Seferis

With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench. — Herb Kohl

When feelings are made available to us isolated, backgroundless, and inherently limited in duration - as they are through music - we can approach them as if we were wine tasters, sampling the delights of various vintages [...]. We become cognoscenti of feeling, savoring the qualitative aspect of emotional life for its own sake. — Jenefer Robinson

Christians have a way of crouching in their own culture instead of penetrating the one they live in with the gospel. Too many migrate to a faith that elevates issue debate and substitutes a set of personal preferences for the glorious gospel. — James MacDonald

To brighten humanity.We must constantly give the gift that everyone really wants ... Love<3 Our world could really use more of it! Timothy Pina — Timothy Pina

I was fashionably late in my unfashionable clothes. — Jarod Kintz