John Cheever Quotes
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.John Cheever
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
Idi Amin -
When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
Candace Cameron Bure -
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield -
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
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I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
Walter Mosley -
You know in the West they support realistic forces.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza -
Competition is good and has served us well.
Harold H. Greene -
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
Iman -
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Ville Valo HIM -
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
Os Guinness -
When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
Fetty Wap -
We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
K. A. Applegate -
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
J. Cole
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I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.
Eric Ripert -
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot -
What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.
Patrisse Cullors -
Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
Leif Garrett -
But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking. That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.
Al Gore -
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever