Variously Defined Quotes

#1. Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

Marion G. Romney

#2. I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Diane Sawyer

#3. After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Maureen O'Hara

#4. I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That's why my kids work so hard, not because I'm so cool. They're working for themselves.

Rafe Esquith

#5. The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists to get over auction houses, galleries, and high-production-value exhibitions and start using our voices again.

Maurizio Cattelan

#6. So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson

#7. If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#8. We should also make ourselves aware that our cultural, ethical, religious, and intellectual traditions have all been profoundly affected by other peoples'.

Karen Armstrong

#9. Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#10. Looking back, one can almost imagine them stalking through the wild with specimen bottles and outsize nets, in determined pursuit of the Ojibwa adverb or the Cherokee pronoun.

Margalit Fox

#11. Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.

Ernie Els

#12. The only salvation of the world today ... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Vaclav Havel

#13. My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Robert Kiyosaki