care quotes

“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ”

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ”

“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.”

“As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.”

“People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.”

“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”

“Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.”

“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”

“That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.”

“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing”

“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.”

“Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?”

“The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.”

“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.”

“I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.”

“Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.”

“My so-called career is a haphazard thing.”

“I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”

“Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”

“Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?”

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.”

“I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.”

“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.”

“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”