Evan Esar Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
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They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
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Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
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We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
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... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.
