Ernest Hemingway Quotes

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

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• I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Enjoy
  • Shopping
  • Holiday

• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Family
  • Animal

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Reason
  • Person
  • Liking

• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Down

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Roles

• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • You
  • Fight
  • Corruption

• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Things
  • Worry

• When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • See

• Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Security
  • Capacity
  • Internal

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success
  • Being
  • Potential

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Focus
  • Safety
  • Uncertainty

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

  

  Alfredo Kraus
  • People
  • Singing
  • Opera

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Angry

• Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • God
  • Men
  • Jesus

• Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Book
  • Solitude

• He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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