#thor

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

#along #amazing #director #does #emotional

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#actions #authorities #basis #compare #department

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. ↗

— Robert Reich

#arab world #authority #high-tech #important #losing

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#defenses #roses #thorns #beauty

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#atheists #author #because #cabinet #declaration

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#author #fiction #form #himself #humiliating

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. ↗

— James Rollins

#birthday #book #day #days #figured

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#between #brutal #differences #end #governments

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#bible #college #college education #education #knowledge