Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.

Desmond Tutu

I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

Desmond Tutu

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Desmond Tutu

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Desmond Tutu

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

Desmond Tutu

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Desmond Tutu

Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

Desmond Tutu

He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

Desmond Tutu

When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

Desmond Tutu

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Desmond Tutu

Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.

Derek Waters

One of the biggest problems with the Internet: people thinking they know something or are participating in or experiencing something when they aren't. Or, how people think they are staying in touch with their friends by "liking" their pictures.

Derek Waters

I think there's gonna be three networks, and then the rest will be Internet-based, and Amazon is gonna be huge and one of the networks. This is so serious. Ha. But really, you see it happening right now. You can see the shifts.

Deron Williams

I think my putting could be better, my short game.

Derek Luke

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

Delia Smith

I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.

Delmon Young

I don't think too much about awards.

Della Reese

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing

Deion Sanders

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

Deion Sanders

I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty.

Deion Sanders

I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.

Deepak Chopra

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

Deepak Chopra

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

Deepak Chopra

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

Deepak Chopra

I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call "Democracy" will be "Netocracy", where people, globally, can work on issues.

Deepak Chopra

You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking.

Deepak Chopra

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

Deepak Chopra

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

Debbie Gibson

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

Debbie Allen

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

Debbie Allen

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

Debbie Reynolds

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

Debbie Reynolds

I don't think it's the fans, I think it's the fact that they get paid a lot of money for a picture of you doing something wrong. They don't seem to be interested in anything good any more.I think people appreciate what you do.