Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Isaac Mayer Wise

• Genius
• Intention
• Inconsiderate
• Self-Relying

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• I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Person
  • Nation
  • Pressured

• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Think

• A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Why
  • Government

• The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Summer
  • First
  • Kiss

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

  

  Flume
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Lighting

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Present
  • Person

• Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Men
  • Night
  • Tree

• No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Negotiation
  • Session

• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  

  E. Howard Hunt
  • War
  • Cold

• For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run.

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Love
  • Ready
  • Intention

• Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

  

  Ernest Legouve
  • Genius
  • Charity
  • Sympathy

• It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Lie
  • Silent
  • Keep

• They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

  

  John Gardner
  • Evil
  • Stupid
  • Enjoy

• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  

  Isaac Mayer Wise
  • Genius
  • Intention
  • Inconsiderate