John Dos Passos Quotes

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

John Dos Passos

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• I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Feel
  • Comfortable
  • I Feel

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Home

• I don't understand anything about America's culture.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Understand

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Up
  • Real
  • Taken

• I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Always
  • Before

• I read French much better than I speak.

  

  Cara Black
  • Better
  • Speak
  • Read

• I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Potential

• I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Mother
  • Crazy
  • Just

• My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • First
  • Listen
  • Last

• Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Sun

• Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Mood

• There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Moment

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• Darling, you can't promise that...but I like to hear you say it.

  

  P. D. James
  • Promise

• For the adult, all the world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role. The outlaw quietly takes a seat in the back row of the theater of the mind and watches.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Mind
  • Personality

• I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friend

• From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Attention
  • Suffering
  • Childhood

• I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip.

  

  Brenda Strong
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Dumb

• Chinese people love compromise. If you say to them, 'This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will all oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof,' they will compromise with you and say 'Let's have a window.'

  

  Lu Xun
  • People
  • Dark
  • Chinese

• If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

  

  John Dos Passos