David Schwimmer Quotes

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

David Schwimmer

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• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Live

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Why
  • Always
  • Environmental

• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  

  Major Taylor
  • World
  • Success
  • Youth

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Problem
  • Year
  • Teammates

• I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

  

  Gallagher
  • World
  • Problem
  • Prejudice

• I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Wise

• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

  

  Olof Palme
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Question

• Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ring
  • Manner
  • Relatives

• This was their ceremonial hymn: Anon We loved but would no marriage make. Anon The one refused the other one to take, Foreswore the sipping of the marriage wine.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Marriage
  • Wine

• Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • War

• There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Control
  • Wishes

• If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Regret

• If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Time
  • Man
  • Earth

• When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Primitive
  • Civilizations

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Years

• If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

  

  David Schwimmer