Eugene O'Neill Quotes

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

Eugene O'Neill

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• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Forever

• I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Want
  • Style
  • Religion

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Brainy

• I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Ideas

• I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Feel
  • Journey
  • Surgery

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Society

• On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Up
  • Power
  • Nature

• My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Black
  • Support

• A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.

  

  Phoebe Cates
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Tea

• I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'

  

  Don Lemon
  • Life
  • Sorry

• I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

  

  David Prowse
  • Star

• If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Music
  • Country
  • Done

• Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results.

  

  Emma Pooley
  • Results
  • Satisfaction

• Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is manifest in the spirit of contention. Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men. Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was not my will, but thine be done.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Spirit
  • Pride
  • Christ

• The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Men
  • Memories

• For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Power
  • Memories

• Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.

  

  George Eliot
  • Eye
  • Memories
  • Sweet

• The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Memories
  • Insist
  • Cherishing