George Herbert Quotes

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

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• I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Night
  • Born
  • Owl

• If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Loss
  • Winner

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Tall

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • More
  • Seems
  • Extreme

• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Desire

• My personal life is also cinema.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Personal
  • Cinema

• The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Poor

• The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Strong

• The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mind
  • Wind

• We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Peace

• If children have interests then education happens.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Children
  • Education

• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Challenge
  • Dumb

• The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Friend
  • Personality

• While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Long

• I would love to work with Kristin Wiig one day. I find her hilarious, and I totally idolize her.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Work
  • Hilarious

• You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Death
  • Man

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Fool
  • Gun
  • Revenge

• The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Teaches
  • Govern
  • State Of Nature

• I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Living well is the best revenge.

  

  George Herbert
  • Revenge