Peter O'Toole Quotes

What I like is bottomless flattery.

Peter O'Toole

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• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Lies

• Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Modern

• When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Up

• You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Long
  • Ifs

• I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Pain

• We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Education
  • Single
  • Economic

• The best part about it was that we were rationed on water (during combat); we could only have so much.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • Water
  • Combat

• If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Achieve

• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Ambitious

• If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Cost
  • Rate
  • Inflation

• I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Talent
  • Possess

• For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Mankind
  • Satisfied
  • Majority

• Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.

  

  Alexandre Borovik
  • Act
  • Acceptance
  • Activity

• i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Work
  • Different
  • Nature

• Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Side
  • Joyful

• Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Purpose
  • Interested
  • Praise

• I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Deal
  • Flattery
  • Rudeness

• What I like is bottomless flattery.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Flattery