Famous Quotes

Quotes by Cher

• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
• A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
• A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.
• A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.
• A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
• A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
• A woman's health is her capital.
• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
• Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
• An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
• Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
• As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.
• As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
• At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
• At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
• Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
• Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.
• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
• Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
• But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
• But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
• Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
• Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
• Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
• Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
• Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
• Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.
• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
• Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
• Faith is spiritualized imagination.
• Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
• For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
• For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.