Evan Esar Quotes

Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

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• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Rest

• You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Different
  • Love
  • Myself

• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Human
  • Born
  • Nobility

• My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

  

  T-Pain
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Voice

• We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Rest

• The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Exercise

• My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • She
  • Problems
  • Tea

• The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

  

  Lester Maddox
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Treat

• I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

  

  Valerie Thomas
  • Good
  • Drawing

• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Political
  • Independent
  • Ability

• I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Stuff

• If he does not sue, he is a drug user, a repeat steroid user, a knowing steroid user. He has to sue for everything that the next 50 years of merchandising is worth.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Drug
  • Worth
  • Steroid

• The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• I don't do things that are illegal.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Things
  • Illegal

• When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Mistake
  • Humility
  • Circumstances

• When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Character
  • Unhappy

• Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Deserve
  • Unhappy
  • Compare