Quotes of Genuinely - somelinesforyou

“ When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way. ”

- Alan Loy McGinnis

“ We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me. ”

- Robert Carlyle

“ If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children. ”

- Silvia Cartwright

“ If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ”

- Alex Chilton

“ One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. ”

- Mary Gordon

“ Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources. ”

- Jon Kyl

“ I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ Golf takes me out of the crap of a sick world. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer. ”

- James Woods

“ I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting... long-term vision. They should be practical. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. ”

- Billy Bragg

“ Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz — something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding. ”

- Chungliang Al Huang

“ The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. ”

- Juvenal

“ I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. ”

- Walter Chrysler

“ If we can genuinely honor our mother and father, we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future. ”

- Shirley MacLaine

“ No man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do unless he genuinely likes people and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. ”

- P. D. James

“ People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. ”

- Jane Rule

“ Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. ”

- Karen Horney

“ If you want to persuade someone to your point of view, make him feel like somebody. Put yourself in his shoes. Don't talk - listen to his problems and concerns. Show that you are genuinely interested. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ The Palestine Authority cannot be changed or reformed from within. It is a corrupt terrorist police state. Any challenge to the terrorists who run it will be ruthlessly suppressed. Many Palestinians genuinely interested in peace have been assassinated over the years for that very reason. ”

- David Horowitz

“ The drink was effecting me badly. I was feeling lousy especially in the morning. Now I have a much fuller time with people. The more you don't drink the more you find you can be high as a kite anyway. I had huge fun when I was drinking. But towards the end I was not genuinely enjoying it… ”

- John Hurt

“ To believe that Iran has genuinely abandoned its longstanding ambition to become a nuclear power requires an almost willful ignorance of its history or an utterly breathtaking level of naivete on the part of those entrusted to monitor nuclear proliferation. ”

- John Kyl

“ I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. ”

- Michael Palin

“ Jimmy had that genius; that mysterious certain something. When you watched him play, you wanted to learn how to play that way... he was an inspiration to me to play honestly, to play truthfully, to play deeply. ”

- Harvey Keitel

“ No man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing. ”

- William James
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