Pradotheater Quotes & Sayings

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga. — Colm Keaveney

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. — George Papandreou

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine. — Wendelin Van Draanen

Although Adam Smith is today often regarded as a "conservative" figure, he in fact attacked some of the dominant ideas and interests of his own times. Moreover, the idea of a spontaneously self-equilibrating system - the market economy - first developed by the Physiocrats and later made part of the tradition of classical economics by Adam Smith, represented a radically new departure, not only in analysis of social causation but also in seeing a reduced role for political, intellectual, or other elites as guides or controllers of the masses. — Thomas Sowell

Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character. — Tracie Peterson

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium. — U Thant

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did. — Aaron Neville

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage. — Blaise Pascal

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp. — Erik King

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else — Richelle Mead

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself. — Adyashanti

There's nothing deader than a dead love. — Leona Helmsley

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit. — Timothy Zahn