Christy Mathewson Quotes

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Christy Mathewson

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Without
  • WIld

• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Story
  • Development

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Marriage
  • Public
  • Get

• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • People
  • Information
  • Sin

• It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • You
  • Two

• I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Internet
  • Admittedly

• My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Reality
  • TV
  • Nosey

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Women
  • Energy

• Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • True
  • Nice
  • Thrilled

• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• We are facing someone Iran who has an army, money, and a political plan for the Arab Islamic Middle East.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Money
  • Political
  • Army

• I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything I've done is about these quite eccentric, exotic outsiders who you might see in a certain light at first, but once you scratch the surface a little, you realize that they're not that different from you. I think there's an element of that which unites.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

  

  George Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Builds

• The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.

  

  Gary North
  • God
  • Victory
  • Final

• Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • Home
  • Job
  • Red

• You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

  

  Christy Mathewson
  • Victory