There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
#quotes #harvey-fierstein

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
#quotes #isabel-allende #life #society #war

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
#quotes #michael-scheuer #prince #osama-bin-laden #united-states

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
#quotes #tim-pawlenty #barack-obama #politics #leadership #united-states

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
#quotes #tom-petty #marriage

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #wisdom #light

For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
#quotes #william-blake #human #love

They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
#quotes #stephen-king #ending #beginning

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
#quotes #george-burns #smoking

The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
#quotes #barack-obama #government #economy

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #planning #corn #trees #education

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
#quotes #james-stewart #acting

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
#quotes #c-s-lewis #family #eating

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
#quotes #akhil-sharma #love #fear

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
#quotes #john-bulwer #love

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
#quotes #evan-rachel-wood #love

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
#quotes #michele-bachmann #government #money

Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
#quotes #thomas-a-edison #ideas #hallucinations

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
#proverbs #malabar-proverbs #anger

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns. ~Tom Hicks
#quotes #tom-hicks #sports

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
#quotes #bertrand-russell #theology

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
#quotes #louisa-may-alcott #hero

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
#quotes #ice-t #family #father #work

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
#quotes #jimi-hendrix #music

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
#quotes #shelby-foote #writing #books