Evan Esar Quotes

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

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• I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Films
  • Roles
  • Image

• England is a nation of shopkeepers.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Nation
  • England

• I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Light
  • Forever

• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Happy
  • Thankful

• If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Myself
  • Rock
  • Kid

• We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Seriously

• Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Government
  • Television

• For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Political
  • Black
  • Culture

• With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Society
  • Years
  • Democratic

• I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Insomnia

• There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Great
  • Inspire

• Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children

• Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Doe
  • Resistance
  • Please Me

• When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Man
  • Things
  • Growing Up

• As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Piece
  • Affectation

• The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Virtue

• Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Positive
  • Judgment

• There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

  

  William Barclay
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Joy

• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Admire

• Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Admire
  • Imitate

• I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Together
  • Blow
  • Admire

• A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Admire
  • Cynic