Overlooked famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

  • It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

  • Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.

  • Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  • My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.

  • I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

  • The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

  • People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

  • I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.

  • I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.