Top 100 Desmond Quotes
#1. Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.
Desmond Bristow
#2. I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.
Craig Ferguson
#3. As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
Boz Scaggs
#4. The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame Peloux, and a tiny tie-pin for you
Colette
#5. I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
Jody Williams
#6. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
Gloria Swanson
#8. Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
Eddie Condon
#9. Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish
Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed
himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and
has lived selflessly for the art
Seamus Heaney
#10. An interview with Quinn is like fighting a yellow snake in a sandpit.' Desmond
Jess Kidd
#11. Desmond, don't poke the baby!' ... 'I'll get you next time-' Don't threaten the baby either!' ...
Derek Landy
#12. His hair is huge! ... Look! ... It's just sticking up at odd angles! Like a demented porcupine! - Desmond, about Fletcher's hair
Derek Landy
#13. If you need a reference point, she was created in a grandma lab somewhere by crossing the DNA of Mary Poppins, Jack Black, Julia Child and Desmond Tutu.
Scott Dannemiller
#14. As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!
Richard Rohr
#15. Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.
Nelson Mandela
#16. Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.
Michael Redd
#17. VICTORY IS OURS Goodness is stronger than evil; Love is stronger than hate; Light is stronger than darkness; Life is stronger than death; Victory is ours through Him who loves us. DESMOND TUTU
Desmond Tutu
#18. My knuckles go white as my grip on the porcelain tightens. Now I know what Desmond cashed that one particular bead in for. Sobriety. Forget the supernatural bounty hunters that are after him; that fucker is mine. That
Laura Thalassa
#19. But what Desmond didn't tell you is
by the end of the hunt, if you have faced the Vampaneze Lord four times and failed to kill him, only one of you will be alive to witness the fall of the vampire clan. The other two will be dead.
Darren Shan
#20. I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.
Sam Amidon
#21. Live Life. Fight for life. Every day is a gift. Don't take it for granted.
In memory of Carter Desmond McFillin.
Tony Curl
#22. Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
Anna Chlumsky
#23. I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
Bono
#24. What if a wizard was sent to kill him?"
"Well, as to that," Desmond replied, drawing his.longsword, "wizards die the same as the other men, once you cut their heads off.
George R R Martin
#25. The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
Carlton Cuse
#26. I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.
Helen Hunt
#27. I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
Jim Wallis
#28. The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion, women or men - can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes?
Colette
#29. Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu
#30. People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
Desmond Tutu
#31. God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond Tutu
#32. Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
John Desmond Bernal
#33. it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.
Matthew Desmond
#34. The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.
Desmond Tutu
#35. I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
Desmond Tutu
#36. The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.
Desmond Tutu
#37. The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Express' was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees.
Richard Desmond
#38. Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
John Desmond Bernal
#39. The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.
Desmond Tutu
#40. We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom
Desmond Tutu
#41. If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!
Desmond Tutu
#42. To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
Desmond Tutu
#43. Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu
#44. A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond Tutu
#45. It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
Desmond Tutu
#46. Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond Tutu
#47. I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Desmond Tutu
#48. You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
Desmond Tutu
#50. You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
Desmond Tutu
#51. Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
Desmond Tutu
#52. Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.
Paul Desmond
#53. I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris
#54. I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.
Desmond Dekker
#55. If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
Desmond Tutu
#56. I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
Desmond Tutu
#57. You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
Desmond Tutu
#58. The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death ... Choose life."
Desmond Tutu
#59. Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice. And
Desmond Tutu
#60. To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
Desmond Tutu
#61. Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
Desmond Tutu
#62. We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.
Matthew Desmond
#63. Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
Desmond Tutu
#64. I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.
Desmond Tutu
#66. Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.
Desmond Tutu
#67. It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
Desmond Tutu
#68. I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.
Desmond Tutu
#69. Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
Adrian Desmond
#71. Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
Desmond Tutu
#72. If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources.
Matthew Desmond
#74. I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong
Desmond Tutu
#76. The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
John Desmond Bernal
#77. The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.
John Desmond Bernal
#78. I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
Desmond Tutu
#79. Accept yourself, it will inspire others to do the same for themselves.
Desmond D. Green
#80. It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I love it.
Richard Desmond
#81. We need rituals for all traumas and loss, whether it is betrayal or infidelity or violence or murder. Ritual helps us heal, and ritual helped me heal and become ready to consider the person who murdered Angela, his story, his pain.
Desmond Tutu
#82. This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word ... that is what has upheld the morale of our people, to know that in the end good will prevail.
Desmond Tutu
#84. This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.
Desmond Tutu
#85. Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Desmond Tutu
#86. This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
Desmond Morris
#87. While I was growing up, I was mostly compliant and easy going. But sometimes I could be a little rascal.
Janell Haworth Desmond
#88. Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
Desmond Tutu
#89. Healing means that our dignity is restored and we are able to move forward in our lives.
Desmond Tutu
#90. The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
Desmond Tutu
#91. I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
Paul Desmond
#92. In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
Desmond Tutu
#93. Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen as a "poison" that will only lead to negative actions and will do nothing to reduce suffering.
Desmond Biddulph
#94. Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things.
Matthew Desmond
#95. As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond Tutu
#96. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
#97. In our own ways, we are all broken. Out of that brokenness, we hurt others. Forgiveness is the journey we take toward healing the broken parts. It is how we become whole again.
Desmond Tutu
#98. Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
Desmond Tutu
#99. Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.
Desmond Dekker
#100. Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
Arthur Desmond
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