Tom Hanks Quotes

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Tom Hanks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1956

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GoodBusinessWorldChanceYouBad

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

IdeasEconomicsThinkProfessional

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

HealthGovernmentCareNameYouTax

You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

Robert Rinder

ChurchYouChristmasAwayGoing

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Matthew Simpson

LifeThingsAgainstUsPractical

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Angela Carter

WorldIllusionFoolsWholeEverybody

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

NatureGoodSnowRainSunshineWind

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.

John Piper

AmazingGoMinistryHowMany

When you're at a public pool or in your friend's backyard, knowing that your kids can get in and out of the water and protect themselves can make all the difference in the world. Something as simple as being able to flip over and get to the ladder can save a life. You can start your kids in lessons as early as you want - it's never too soon.

Summer Sanders

LifeFriendWaterSimpleStartYou

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

LifeStrongerWeakest LinkChain

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

William James

WorkCharacterWorldFeelingDone

My wife does wish I dressed better.

Sean Hannity

WifeBetterWishDressedDoes

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

Richard LaGravenese

DeathPeopleYouInnocentKnow

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