"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Limits Quotes #Influence Quotes #Being Human Quotes

“What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.”
“One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.”
“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”
“You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.”
“If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.”
“Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.”
“You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.”
“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away sheâ€™d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time sheâ€™d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, sheâ€™d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and sheâ€™d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”

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