quotes about Confidence In God

“A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.102, Northwestern University Press

“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”

“The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.”

Source : "The Annotated Alice". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction), 1960.

“True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie”

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

“Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.”

“An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.”

“The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.”

“I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.”

Source : "Lee Daniels Makes It Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.

“My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.”