S Nelson* Quotes
Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.
There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.
Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.
Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.
Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea, I remember the night, when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you oh so tight.
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.
The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...
Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.
Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.
A renegade is someone who chooses the narrow way because it's the Jesus way . . . the way of life, health and growth.
Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate
I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.
Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination.
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.
The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.
There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side