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Laurance Rockefeller Quotes

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

Laurance Rockefeller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 26, 1910 - July 11, 2004

Topics

People Finding Satisfaction Lifestyle

What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.

Women Men Job Long Look Understand

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Find Deaf Will Listen Rational Us

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Character Story Understanding Know

Shows have a tendency to end when they're over. 'The Dukes of Hazzard' has not ended for the fans, and it has not ended for the cast or the crew, and I'm very proud to be a part of that.

Proud End Over Fans Crew Cast

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Stephen Hawking

I Am Child Questions Find Why Never

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I Am Better Say Able Than Did

The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being given cash - that's nice - it's doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.

Money People Doing Reward Nice Cash

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

Nature Love Children Conflict Push

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Happiness Sad Tears Sadness Reason

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

Christian Louboutin

Funny Dreams Women Sad Beautiful Me

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

You Person Nobody Movies Lead Up

It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.

Pope Benedict XVI

Nature Marriage Women God Culture

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