Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton J. Sheen

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• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Kid

• I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Sanity

• One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Army
  • Being

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Me
  • Finding

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • World
  • America
  • High

• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Good
  • Work
  • Different

• Our dresses take a long time to make.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Time
  • Long

• The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Environment
  • Challenge
  • Poverty

• Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Single
  • Focus
  • Pride

• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Respect
  • Pride

• While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Proud
  • Dark
  • Leadership

• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Pride
  • Competition