Evan Esar Quotes

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

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• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • World
  • Great
  • Humanity

• One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Like
  • Characters
  • Films

• You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sacrifice
  • Dedication
  • Qualities

• I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Why
  • Think

• These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Focus

• Non combattete mai con la religione, né con le cose che pare che dependono da Dio; perché questo obietto ha troppa forza nella mente degli sciocchi.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini

• Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May
  • Fear
  • Faith

• The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Question

• Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

  

  Nita Ambani
  • May
  • Law
  • Numbers

• There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Chance
  • Revolution
  • Georgia

• For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

  

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • Good
  • Habit

• Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Work
  • Success