Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Service
  • Creating
  • Twitter

• I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Goal

• It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Dancing
  • Satisfied
  • Stuck

• To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Water
  • Land
  • Three

• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Dying

• We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Believe
  • She
  • Sister

• The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Me
  • Said
  • More

• Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Complex

• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Questions

• When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • Up
  • Meet

• China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with African countries on an equal basis and has no desire to colonize Africa.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Friendship

• Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Violence

• You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

  

  Dan Millman

• We learn only to ask more questions.

  

  Larry Niven

• In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

  

  Morris West
  • Thousand
  • Restaurants
  • Tables

• We went to the basket and didn't get the calls. They went to the basket and got the calls. Down the stretch, they gave us calls then, but in the middle of the game, we didn't get them. ... My third foul, I was like there must be something wrong with the shot clock. I was baffled.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Game
  • Calls
  • Basket

• Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Beauty
  • Heat

• I enjoy being slept on. It's like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.

  

  Raheem DeVaughn
  • Movement
  • Making
  • Transition

• There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

  

  James Forrestal
  • Country
  • Serious

• Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Brave
  • Dies
  • Coward