#Position Quotes #Persons Quotes
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”
“Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.”
“At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.”
“Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness...”
“In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.”
“One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.”
“I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.”
“We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.”
Donald Trump Investor
Evo Morales President of Bolivia
Francis of Assisi Saint
Mother Teresa Saint
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II Priest
Pope John XXIII
Pope Pius XII
Vladimir Putin President of Russia