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.
Francisco de Quevedo
Quotes to Explore
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller
-
I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
Forest Whitaker
-
Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
Andy Samberg
-
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.
Ntozake Shange
-
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon
-
1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.
G. Edward Griffin
-
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