Misattributed To Tom Stoppard Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. — Georges Bataille

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing. — Bob Menendez

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. — Condoleezza Rice

Birth and death frame a life, give it shape. Without that border it just becomes a kind of sprawling mess, a thing with no edge, no definition, no centre. — Alastair Reynolds

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Buddha

It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing. — Seneca.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus. — Bill Johnson

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture. — Christopher Moore

To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn. — Kevin Spacey

You are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind. — Garrison Keillor

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs. — Colson Whitehead

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith