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 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 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

• 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

• Democracy as a system of government may indeed be unprecedented in Afghanistan, but democracy as a way of life, a set of principles and values, is deeply embedded in our society.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Life
  • May
  • Society

• I suspect the Haitian Ministry of Health's principal contribution to health in Haiti is providing nice, healthy jobs to those Haitians with the connection to get them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nice
  • Health
  • Connection

• If I loved you, well that's my fault

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Energy

• In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Characteristics
  • Warfare
  • Correspond

• Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Today
  • Depression

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

  

  Paulo Coelho