W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Country
  • Think

• I'm an actor.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Actor

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Champion
  • Sailor

• Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • May
  • Man
  • Same

• The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • History
  • Eyes
  • View

• Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Looking
  • Finding

• As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • People
  • Pay
  • Protect

• I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Children
  • Day

• Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Run
  • Republican
  • Inequality

• A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Decision

• When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Running
  • Woman
  • Choice

• Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Night

• When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Matter

• As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

  

  Akhenaton
  • Courage
  • Danger
  • Fortune

• Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.

  

  Misty Copeland
  • People
  • Children
  • Certain

• You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it's so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay clubs to book you. It's pay to play, and then you only get 30 minutes. That's no way to get good.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Good
  • Book
  • Growing

• There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Powerful
  • Drive
  • Metallica

• Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham