Ethel Barrymore Quotes

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

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• God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Very
  • Throw

• Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • History
  • Without
  • Malaysia

• When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Why
  • Want
  • Thought

• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Soul

• I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • World

• There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.

  

  Meher Baba
  • Ignorance

• A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Ideas

• The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Health

• A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Question
  • Reason
  • Stock

• I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

  

  Saeb Erekat
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Mean

• My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

  

  Muddy Waters
  • People
  • Play
  • Simple

• The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Parents

• I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• The chemists who uphold dualism are far from being agreed among themselves; nevertheless, all of them in maintaining their opinion, rely upon the phenomena of chemical reactions. For a long time the uncertainty of this method has been pointed out: it has been shown repeatedly, that the atoms put into movement during a reaction take at that time a new arrangement, and that it is impossible to deduce the old arrangement from the new one. It is as if, in the middle of a game of chess, after the disarrangement of all the pieces, one of the players should wish, from the inspection of the new place occupied by each piece, to determine that which it originally occupied.

  

  Auguste Laurent
  • Opinion
  • Reaction
  • Atoms

• We were very close many times. I don't think there were a couple of times that a hair could have even be between the wheel and my wheel. I don't think we ever touched. I tell you, I respect him a lot after this race. Not that I didn't respect him before, but he definitely drove like a champion.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Respect
  • Hair
  • Couple

• He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

  

  Ardant du Picq
  • Position
  • General
  • Counterattack

• I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Grew Up

• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

  

  Ethel Barrymore
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