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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
-
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as 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.
-
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
-
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.
-
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
-
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
-
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
-
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
-
Surviving is the only glory in war.
-
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.
-
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
-
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
-
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
-
Kindness, altruistic love, and compassion are qualities that do not harmonize well with bias. Restricting the field of our compassion not only diminishes it quantitatively but also qualitatively. Applying our compassion only to certain beings, human beings in this case, makes it a lesser and a poorer thing.
-
I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.
-
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
-
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
