Thrive Quotes - Page 37

• Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

  Howard Zinn

  Direct Action, Voting, Democracy

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.208, City Lights Publishers

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• I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Sound, Way

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

  Orlando Bloom

  Movie, Adventure, Love Is

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• A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Ideas, Yesterday

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• And many kinds of creatures must have died,
  Unable to plant out new sprouts of life.
  For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives
  Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved
  By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
  And many have been entrusted to our care,
  Commended by their usefulness to us.
  For instance, strength supports a savage lion;
  Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

  Lucretius

  Life, Death, Science

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• I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names, Two, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.298, Yale University Press

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• On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Girl, Christian, Morning

  "The Satanic Bible" by Anton Szandor LaVey, As quoted in the Introduction by Burton H. Wolfe, 1969.

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• Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.

  Liam Neeson

  Understanding, Criminals, Indulgence

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• Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Cheating, Bullying

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

  William Howard Taft

  Religious, Dark, Men

  Speech to the Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York, December 20, 1914.

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• You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Being Happy, Children, Book

  Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

  Robert W. Service

  Being Strong, Law, Survival

  "The Law of the Yukon" l. 71 (1907)

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• The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

  Jack Anderson

  Business, Dark, Government

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Science, Daring, Caution

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• The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Glory

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• No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Humanity, Society

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.427, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Greatness, Thinking

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• Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Law, Growth

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• Even in the stifling bosom of the town,
  A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
  That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
  That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
  Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
  He cultivates.

  William Cowper

  Home, Garden, Grace

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.125

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• Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Writing, Rights

  George Orwell (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Soul, Spirit

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• Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Brother, Pressure, Nervous

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• I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Odds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

  John Dryden

  Men, Good Man, Want

  'Constantine the Great' (1684) epilogue

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• He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  Hilary Mantel

  Daughter, Father, Fall

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