Paulo Coelho Quotes

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

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• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Long
  • Today
  • Energy

• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Done
  • House
  • Community

• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Respect
  • Discipline
  • Fruit

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Said

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Safe

• I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Body
  • Look
  • Changes

• I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Advice
  • Ask

• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • High
  • Poetry
  • Drama

• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Important
  • Success
  • Attitude

• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Work
  • Science
  • Energy

• A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Son
  • Teenager
  • Soldiers

• I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Problem
  • Better
  • Start

• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Him
  • Reform

• After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnæus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.

  

  Karl Ernst von Baer
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Existence

• Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Together
  • Rest

• Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.

  

  John Buchan
  • Wisdom

• Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

  

  Paulo Coelho