Rebecca Quotes

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.

I dreamed of being able to share my thoughts and feelings and hopes without thinking they were going to make fun of me and think I was silly, and I have that.

More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

I like to write poetry.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.

No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.

May you get more out of life than a cup of tea.

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.