George Etherege Quotes

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Etherege

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• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Actor

• It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Business
  • Pleasure
  • Temple

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Rock

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Never
  • Suffering
  • Loneliness

• People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Win
  • Sick

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • School
  • Reading

• There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Passion
  • Fire
  • Greed

• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • People

• The creation of a classical style was not so much the achievement of an ideal as the reconciliation of conflicting ideals-the striking of an optimum balance between them.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Style
  • Balance
  • Achievement

• When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

  

  George Etherege
  • Death
  • Passion