Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.Oliver Goldsmith
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
Laura Wasser -
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
P. T. Barnum -
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta -
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
V. S. Naipaul
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
Tariq Ali -
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams -
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
Vince Staples -
I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
Taylor Sheridan
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
Dana Torres -
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My role models have kept on changing.
Kapil Dev -
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Rainn Wilson -
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
Adam McKay
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It was the most fun I ever had. I would just laugh between takes. It was fun to be so mean.
Piper Laurie -
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
E. L. Doctorow -
I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.
Lauren Groff -
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
Oliver Goldsmith