Saint Basil Quotes

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

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• I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Home
  • Energy
  • New York

• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government
  • Service

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Woman
  • Old
  • Diet

• About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

  

  Ursula Hegi
  • Great
  • Different
  • Practice

• You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Thinking

• We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Football

• A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Achievement
  • Engagement

• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  

  William James
  • Soul
  • Science
  • Simple

• Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Disappear