Top 100 Thurman Quotes
#1. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.
Howard Thurman
#2. What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.
Howard Thurman
#3. I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.
Keith Thurman
#4. Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.
Judith Thurman
#5. You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.
Robert Thurman
#6. You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.
Robert Thurman
#7. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
Robert Thurman
#8. With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman
Huston Smith
#9. They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.
Rob Thurman
#10. That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.
Uma Thurman
#11. People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.
Robert Thurman
#12. And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.
Rob Thurman
#13. But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Uma Thurman
#14. I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.
Thurman Munson
#15. The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
Robert Thurman
#16. And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
Uma Thurman
#18. Grocery lists I lost; my shit list was forever.
Rob Thurman
#19. Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
Robert Thurman
#20. There is only one person I wake up every morning striving to be better than, and that is myself.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#21. There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman
#22. We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.
Judith Thurman
#23. Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you genuinely want to read and don't settle.
Rob Thurman
#24. In the presence of an overwhelming sincerity on the part of the disinherited, the dominant themselves are caught with no defense [ ... ] They are thrown back upon themselves for their rating.
Howard Thurman
#25. Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
Howard Thurman
#26. However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.
Robert Thurman
#27. He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
Howard Thurman
#28. Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses. "Fear not, night dweller," Niko said with mocking gravity. "It is merely the sun, something you would see more often if you would roll out of bed before late afternoon.
Rob Thurman
#29. True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.
Robert Thurman
#30. Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.
Robert Thurman
#31. No, you're not like me. You're better. A better person, a better goddamn everything. Now, eat your breakfast. And if you open your mouth to say you aren't everything I know you are, I'll stuff that bagel in it. Plain. Without cream cheese.
Healthy food
the ultimate threat.
Rob Thurman
#32. Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.
Rob Thurman
#33. But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Uma Thurman
#34. Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus." "Let us not make light of the rectally challenged." Niko disposed of the mug with disdain, wiping his hand thoroughly on a towel afterward. "The condition is no doubt congenital. Completely beyond his control.
Rob Thurman
#35. Get a grip, change your shorts, and move on to the task at hand.
Rob Thurman
#36. The guy had guts - I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.
Rob Thurman
#37. Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.
Robert Thurman
#38. Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. - HOWARD THURMAN
Christopher Gergen
#39. I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#40. Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.
Howard Thurman
#41. Smote.' I haven't gotten to use that word since my days upstairs. I kind of miss it. Lots of pomp and circumstance in a word like that." He tapped his chin as the smile became sly. "Downstairs we just say slaughter or massacre or team-building exercise.
Rob Thurman
#42. I would rather live a life with a hundred failed dreams created on my own terms, than one successful reality, created on the terms of another.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#43. Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
Judith Thurman
#44. The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.
Robert Thurman
#45. And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
Uma Thurman
#46. A penny saved is worth two pennies earned ... after taxes.
Randy Thurman
#47. Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath.
'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala
why am I even arguing about this with you?
Rob Thurman
#48. I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.
Joshua Jackson
#49. The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.
Howard Thurman
#50. I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh.
Susan Thurman
#51. I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow.
Robert Thurman
#52. Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
Howard Thurman
#53. Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.
Joshua Jackson
#54. Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Uma Thurman
#55. Every time life gives you a million reasons why you should quit, give it a million and one reasons why you never will.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#56. As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong?
Colleen Atwood
#57. Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.
Howard Thurman
#58. I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
Uma Thurman
#59. I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.
Keith Thurman
#60. He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.
Howard Thurman
#61. Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.
Uma Thurman
#62. For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Uma Thurman
#64. Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.
Rob Thurman
#65. Of all the regrets I've had in life, and there are plenty, having loved too much will never be one of them.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#66. Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
Wallace Thurman
#67. Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
Uma Thurman
#68. It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.
Howard Thurman
#69. Listen to the long stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New hopes are being readied:
Humankind is fashioning a new heart
Humankind is forging a new mind
God is at work.
This is the season of Promise
Howard Thurman
#70. Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
Uma Thurman
#71. I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.
Rob Thurman
#72. I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.
Shawn Ashmore
#73. You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.
Robert Thurman
#75. Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Uma Thurman
#76. Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.
Thurman Munson
#77. Their work is timeless. It transcends the bubblegum pap that passes for music now. A Beatles song is a flawlessly executed kata. Anything else is simply wrestling in Jell-O, he returned with disdain.
Rob Thurman
#78. And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.
Judith Thurman
#79. The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order ... Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.
Wallace Thurman
#80. Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.
Robert Thurman
#81. I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes. I don't sign as many autographs as I should and I haven't always been that good with writers.
Thurman Munson
#82. I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.
Uma Thurman
#83. In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#84. Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.
Kelly Lynch
#85. Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
Uma Thurman
#86. Everyone has something in their life, in their world, that can break them.
Rob Thurman
#87. The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life ... have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.
Robert Thurman
#88. Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
Howard Thurman
#89. The relationship between my brain and my mouth tended to be casual at best.
Rob Thurman
#90. A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
Howard Thurman
#91. There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of human beings ebbing and flowing like the tides of the sea.
Howard Thurman
#92. I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman
#93. Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.
Thurman Arnold
#94. What the world need is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
#95. I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.
Uma Thurman
#96. Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
Howard Thurman
#97. I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
Uma Thurman
#98. It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
Uma Thurman
#99. Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?
Rob Thurman
#100. I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
Uma Thurman
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top