Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
Quotes to Explore
-
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
-
The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
-
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
-
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
-
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
-
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
-
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
-
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
-
I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
-
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
-
These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
-
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
-
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
-
You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
-
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
-
I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
-
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
-
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
-
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
-
I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
-
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
-
And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
-
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
