Os Guinness Quotes

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

Os Guinness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HeartFreedomSweetEnemyAlways

Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.

Jim Brown

MoneyPeopleLonelyYouSometimes

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

Jen Lancaster

CoffeeBalanceStrongStairsI Can

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.

Ann Rutherford

RiverPeopleSellingDownWhyMost

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

John Stossel

GovernmentAmericanProsperityYears

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Tracey Ullman

LifeGreatMoneyManPressureGrow

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Tom Coburn

ManagementEyeBetterNewOverUp

Brits are cool at the moment. We've taken over the world, what with 'Game of Thrones', 'Downton Abbey', One Direction... to be British is to be fashionable.

Russell Tovey

MomentCoolWorldGameDirection

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Joyce Cary

LoveImaginationTreesGrowYou

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

Josef Albers

ThinkFriendsI ThinkVeryNear

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.

Dolores O'Riordan

LifeNegativeShortDwellConclusion

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

Delta Burke

MyselfHumorFunMeThinkI Can

I don't expect anyone who doesn't look like me to fix my problems.

Bozoma Saint John

MeProblemsLookFixExpectLike

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