Andy Rooney Quotes

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world. The dead could finally have me. And Iʹd fulfilled my purpose, right? To protect? Iʹd done it. Iʹd saved Lissa, just like Iʹd sworn Iʹd always do. I was dying in battle. No appointment books for me.

Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.

I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too much, unless it's purpose. I like a movie with an action with a certain pace. If it's too monotone, I hate it. No, I don't hate it, I just don't like it, period.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.

There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.