Joseph Heller Quotes

You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

Joseph Heller

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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Hate
  • Door
  • Doing

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• Democrats hate success.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Democrats

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hate
  • Football
  • New York

• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Pass

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Fake

• I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Wrong

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Swimming

• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Think
  • Career
  • Hate

• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Reason

• And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Perfect
  • Single
  • Heaven

• I was posing as a 9-year-old girl who was a blue-ribbon prizewinner; she rode on a Shetland pony, the small horse that was the appropriate size for her.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • She
  • Girl
  • Small

• I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Universe
  • Christian
  • Worry

• Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

  

  Plato
  • Mathematics
  • Here
  • Ignorant

• You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hate
  • Effort
  • Helping