Os Guinness Quotes

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

Os Guinness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 30, 1941

Topics

LoveStrengthFreedomHealthLooking

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

Joe Dante

Growing UpThoughtGrowingUpLast

I generally don't feel the need to do more research than is necessary to play the part for me, to inform me.

Simon Helberg

MeResearchFeelPlayMoreNeed

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.

Tom Waits

MeListeningDoneRealJustRecords

If I do a bad dive, that's in the past. Move on. The next dive is a completely separate thing. It's just about being really present in a particular moment.

Tom Daley

MomentPastPresentBadMove On

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Mary Fallin

ThoughtMake A DifferenceOfficeMake

Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.

Mary Kay Andrews

CuteMomentsMeetComeWriterMost

I was a really, really depressed kid.

Mary Lambert

KidDepressedReally

I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.

Lukas Forchhammer

MusicStyleTogetherBelieveAmerica

I can be a bit nosey. I like a bit of gossip.

Julia McKenzie

GossipI CanLikeBit

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

Jay Kay

PeopleDownI CanHelicopterPursue

Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

Johnny Iuzzini

ParentsGenerationMothersWhereOur

I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

Dimebag Darrell

PeopleFindRockKidOutCome

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