Evan Esar Quotes

Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

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• I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Business
  • Want
  • Israel

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Long
  • Marriage

• I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Time
  • Music
  • Broken

• I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • History
  • Moment
  • Boxing

• Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Doubt
  • Gold
  • Holiday

• I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• 'In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.'

  

  Hans Frank
  • Up
  • Today
  • Red

• All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Alien

• When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Sacrifice

• Clearly, President Bush lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in trouble.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Liar

• Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

  

  James Galway

• I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • People
  • Women
  • Real

• I feel very blessed to have the support I have and to have the fans that I have. I'm still striving to make it every day.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Support
  • Blessed

• I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did songs such as 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' and jokes such as describing current events as 'ancient history.' Boy, did the audience roar at that one.

  

  Joel Grey
  • History
  • Boy

• There's so many different things that you can physically change for a character.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Different
  • Character

• Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Music

• Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Help

• Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Regret

• Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Mistake
  • Enemy
  • Regret

• I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Good
  • Done
  • Character

• Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Regret
  • Minister
  • Extravagant