A Quote by Emma Thompson

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

Emma Thompson

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Emma Thompson
English - Actress
Born: April 15, 1959

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.

Emma Thompson

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

Tommy Lasorda

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.

Annie Dillard

I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed sense of self. My view is actually not that. No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives.

Judith Butler

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

Sonny Perdue

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

Sonny Perdue

I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I... don't.

Bo Burnham

That's the reason I believe in the power of prayer, because I believe you have to be able to first believe in a being superior to you, You have to believe in God and once you're able to believe in God and embrace the greatness of the creator, then you're able to believe in yourself and embrace the greatness that God put into you and each of us, and you're able to tap into that. But there will be days.

Cathy Hughes

We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.

John O. Brennan

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A. Powell Davies

I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.

Peter Thiel

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn

I have been public on this, and I firmly, firmly believe that this notion of accountability for what you promise as a leader is as important as your integrity.

Sergio Marchionne

I firmly believe that philanthropy is most effective and outcome-oriented when you ensure that your pledge actually gets spent.

Shiv Nadar

I believe in highlighting the 'greatness' that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.