Quotes & Sayings About Strong Caracter

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. — Antonin Scalia

Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way. — Vincent Van Gogh

Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn't want them to be first & best. — Megha Khare

It's not staying in the same place that's the problem," said Nanny, "it's not letting your mind wander. — Terry Pratchett

The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, it's kind of like winning the lottery. The independent film world is a world you can actually get to. You can get the under-a-million-dollar film by finding a good cast and financing. — Jill Soloway

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel. — Todd English

Reading. The erotics of reading for me -- its moment of trembling pleasure -- lie in those times when I realise that what I am reading is just what I was about to say. It is a moment of jealousy and disappointment, as if the occasion had been stolen from me, but it is a moment of excitement, too -- because I think I would like to try and say it better, because now the monologue in my mind has become dialogue. My immediate impulse is to write something, anything, notes to tell me the significance of what I have read, an appreciative letter to the author, the first sentences in a preface to a book that will never be written. Th archives of my readings are monumentally high. I can never let these erotic moments go. They are the paper trail of my mind. — Greg Dening

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. — David Mitchell

He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast. — Ian McDonald

A country does not go bankrupt. — Walter Wriston

There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light. — Quintin Jardine

It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring about the required adjustments to new conditions, although no one can foretell how they will do this in a particular instance. There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people — Friedrich August Von Hayek

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ... — Evelyn Waugh

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God. — Frances Power Cobbe