Walter Scott Quotes

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

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• Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Drinking
  • Melancholy
  • Indeed

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• I always knew I was destined for greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Greatness
  • Destined

• When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Money
  • Done
  • Freedom

• Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Moments
  • Never
  • Greatness

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • True
  • Soul

• I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Athlete

• We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Live
  • Society
  • Me

• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Politics
  • Greatness
  • Needed

• People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Drinking

• I had plenty of vices growing up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Country
  • American
  • America

• Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Done
  • You
  • Easy

• Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Man
  • Human
  • Greatness

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Animals

• Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Greatness
  • Run
  • Follow

• The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • American
  • America

• He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wife
  • Drinking
  • Faults

• In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Me
  • Body
  • Films

• There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Life
  • Writing
  • English

• One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Meditation

• I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Years
  • Made
  • Salesman

• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Greatness
  • Drinking
  • Vices