Worthy Quotes - Page 29

• Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Names, Scripts, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

  Terry McMillan

  Weakness, Looks, Attention

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• Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hate, Heart, My Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Past, Men, Light

  Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

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• That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

  Anatole France

  Mother, Children, Tables

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

  Julian Assange

  Summer, Men, Talking

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Stupid, Tennis, Mouths

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• We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Light, Christ, Should

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• I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Believe, Skills, Differences

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• Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Father, Son, Reality

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• See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Fate, Prosperity, Dare

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.705, Oxford University Press

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• The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

  Carl Safina

  Compassion, Giving, Might

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.407, Henry Holt and Company

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• It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

  Scott Simon

  Parent, Cost, Pay

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• All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

  Max Weber

  Reality, Mind, Important

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.104, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Passion, Hatred

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• If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

  Misty Upham

  Beauty, Men, Humanity

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• You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Trust, People, Littles

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.805, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the hallmarks of a life well lived, a life worthy to return to God's presence and receive a fulness of the Father, is to be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus". Paul was valiant, and we can be valiant as well. To be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus" is to be faithful.

  Lawrence E. Corbridge

  Jesus, Father, Faithful

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• It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

  Ashoka

  Giving, Forbidden, Believer

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• It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

  David Jeremiah

  Omnipotence, Judging, Holiness

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• I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely conscious. Somebody tells me a story or, you know, repeats an anecdote that somebody else told them and I just feel like I have to write it down so I don't forget - that means for me, something made it fiction-worthy. Interesting things never happen to me, so maybe two or three times when they do, I have to use them, so I write them down.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

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• Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.

  Fred Phelps

  Support, Sin, Guilty

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• Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Kind, Praise, Tendencies

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• PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

  Diane Wakoski

  Acceptance, Stuff, Good Work

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• Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

  Eliza Farnham

  Art, Office, Grace

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.122

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