Francisco de Quevedo Quotes

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Intelligence
  • Well

• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
  • Autographs

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Child
  • End

• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Able
  • Instincts
  • Repression

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Advice

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Eyes

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Courage

• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • War
  • Glory
  • Surviving

• Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

  

  Craig Armstrong

• That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Character
  • Rebel
  • Hilt

• Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Reality
  • Sound
  • Tune

• My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.

  

  Du Mu
  • Mind
  • Alone
  • Wish

• We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

  

  Francisco de Quevedo
  • Age
  • Wish