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

• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Boyfriend

• 'Where there is mind, there is always solution,' Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

  

  David Brin
  • Mind

• The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Truth
  • Energy

• The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Real
  • War

• I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Living well is the best revenge.

  

  George Herbert
  • Revenge