Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Everybody has something wrong with them.

Ernest Hemingway

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• It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Funny

• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Question
  • Moving

• Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Military

• Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Community

• As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Long
  • Age
  • Curiosity

• Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosopher
  • Tragic
  • Cast Off

• The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Evolution

• It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Problem
  • Creation
  • Boundaries

• It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Accomplished
  • Aims
  • Surmounted

• If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Want
  • Death

• My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

  

  William Camden
  • Found
  • Judging
  • Judgment

• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Strong
  • Dark
  • Waiting

• Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Poet
  • Superstition

• Just as we can’t tell how much we’ve eaten simply by relying on internal cues, we can’t really tell how much we’ve gained or lost without some external benchmark.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • Internal cues
  • External benchmark

• The reality is that we have a weakened energy infrastructure, and anything above a Category 3 hurricane hitting Puerto Rico would be devastating towards that infrastructure.

  

  Ricardo Rossello
  • Energy
  • Would
  • Hurricane

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

  

  Myron Scholes
  • Decision
  • Making
  • Faults

• Everybody has something wrong with them.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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