Michael Clarke Duncan Movie Quotes & Sayings

I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side. — Norah O'Donnell

Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate. — Kate Chopin

Citizens of Liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. You know what the big worry of the Western European is? It certainly isn't "how do I protect other countries?", like America worries about protecting countries. 37,000 Americans died saving South Korea from becoming like North Korea. How many Germans died saving South Korea? How many French? How many Italians? How many Spaniards?
We die for others.
You know what the big concern of Western Europeans is? Vacation time. They riot over vacation time. They riot over the retirement age.
RIOTS take place over these issues. This is narcissism. It doesn't matter what is happening in Cambodia. It doesn't matter what is happening in Syria. I want my vacation time. — Dennis Prager

As countries get wealthier - all of them, together - you're going to have financial assets. That is a good thing. You could argue the assets were traded too much, or that they're too highly valued, or too leveraged. — Jamie Dimon

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. — Barney Frank

I'd rather have your lifeblood tainted than spilled on a forest floor.'
He said no more, just held her. 'I'm not worth it,' she whispered at last.
'Who says so?'
'I do.'
'Then you don't know what love is. — Kate Furnivall

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else. — Steven Brust

I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it. — Paddy Considine

One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he'd learned, was not to overuse the Look. — Peter Clines

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield. — Masaoka Shiki

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own. — Marcus Aurelius

I liked the sound of that. A true plant person. It sounded so much more alive, and warmer than a true advertising person. — Margot Berwin

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control? — Assata Shakur

As you don't have a lover, Miss Darling, I'd like to offer my services. As I believe we've just proven, we're quite compatible. — Lorraine Heath

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever. — William Gilbert