Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Ernest Hemingway

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• Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Idea
  • Create
  • Kid

• About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Africa

• I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Say
  • Feet
  • Six

• I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Jazz
  • Musicians

• I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice

• Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Hope
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I won't change who I am for anything.

  

  Lauren Alaina

• By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Life
  • Live
  • Taken

• But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

  

  Alfred Doblin
  • World
  • Eyes

• Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

  

  Donald McCaig
  • God
  • Family
  • Mysterious

• It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

  

  Benjamin E. Mays
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Lies

• I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • World
  • Drama

• When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Music
  • College
  • Passion

• I'm a fan of some horror. Some of the really corny b-horror movies I don't love so much, but 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Megan M. Duffy
  • Baby

• That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Different
  • Live
  • Audience

• The notion of "system" has gained central importance in contemporary science, society and life. In many fields of endeavor, the necessity of a "systems approach" or "systems thinking" is emphasized, new professions called "systems engineering," "systems analysis" and the like have come into being, and there can be little doubt that this this concept marks a genuine, necessary, and consequential development in science and world-view.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Science

• I think a lot of rock stars take themselves too seriously. Then again, if you want to be a ‘star’ you’ve got to appear to take yourself very seriously indeed. I, unfortunately, could never do this for any length of time. Probably because of my upbringing, my feet were planted far too firmly on the ground. I found the rock star thing pretty laughable. I couldn’t take those types seriously. If I had, I would probably have got further along in the business.

  

  Jack Green T. Rex
  • Business
  • Seriously
  • Rock Star

• When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Tired
  • Relax
  • Visitors

• The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Visitors
  • Telephones
  • Destroyers