James Beattie Quotes

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

James Beattie

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Butterfly
  • Dreaming

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Period

• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Thing

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
  • Field

• Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Kids
  • Culture

• The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Acting
  • Said
  • Awesome

• I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Why
  • Business

• A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Happy
  • Nature

• Don't worry. For a man who has been dead for fifteen years I am in remarkable health. Love. Mr. Barrymore.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Health
  • Worry

• Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Be Happy

• I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • America
  • Strong
  • Brother

• I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Peace

• Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

  

  James Beattie
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance