Bernard Quotes

I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years.

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

I was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.

I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.

I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.

I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

The streets was basically my parents.

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

Our success comes from stability.

The weather is beautiful in Toulon and the girls are beautiful and I don't want to leave.

They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message.

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Nationality isn't soul.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Politics isn't in my nature.