Sargent Shriver Quotes

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

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• I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.

  

  Parker Young
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Food

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Swimming

• The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Up
  • Together
  • Now

• I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Want
  • Meat

• If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Dream
  • Freedom

• My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Movie

• Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

  

  Edmund White
  • Great
  • House
  • Flower

• Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.

  

  Karan Johar
  • City
  • Face
  • Happier

• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • American
  • Right
  • Privacy

• Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Future
  • Win

• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Poverty
  • Pride

• All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Gold
  • Nothing
  • Loser

• If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Help
  • Team
  • Focus

• I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Party
  • Tired

• Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Better
  • More
  • Obvious

• The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Function
  • Within

• Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Light

• Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

  

  Keith Moon The Who
  • Play
  • Rock N Roll
  • Mandolin

• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?

  

  Martin Luther
  • People
  • Enemies
  • Suffer

• We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Risk
  • Pay

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Line
  • Essential