Bret Stephens Quotes

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

Bret Stephens

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• When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Free
  • My Life

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half

• I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Life
  • Help
  • Death

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • New
  • Dead
  • Research

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
  • Practice

• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Perspective

• You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Happy
  • Act
  • Be Happy

• Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Success
  • Honesty

• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Professional
  • Same
  • Strength

• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Doing

• A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Relationships

• I love flying.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Flying

• When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Attention

• I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Opinion
  • Bored

• My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • May
  • Night

• Be it 'Dare 2 Dance,' 'Man vs. Job,' or 'I Can Do That,' I have always taken up projects that is innovative. I want to try out different things, as that gets me going.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Up
  • Different
  • Job

• Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Country
  • Success
  • Winning

• Men readily believe that they will fill a whole life; but for my part, I believe that however fond one is of one's husband, one does not relinquish a life of work without some difficulty; affection is a very pretty thing provided it is coupled with something to fill one's day; that something, for you, I see as motherhood.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

  

  Bret Stephens