Sargent Shriver Quotes

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

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• I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Song
  • Process

• Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

  

  Said Musa
  • Work
  • English
  • Independent

• I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Man
  • Feeling
  • Natural

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Way
  • Kind

• Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Education
  • Health

• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Motivational

• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Crazy

• Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Parts
  • Natures
  • Despised

• Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.

  

  Vir Das
  • Dancers
  • Bollywood
  • Romantic Film

• We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Think
  • Story
  • Central Banks

• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Views
  • Errors

• Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

  

  William Feather
  • Thinking
  • Honest
  • Compliment

• This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Age
  • Beautiful
  • Ideas

• Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

  

  Geoffrey Hill
  • House
  • Stones
  • Laurels

• In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Player

• Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Improbable
  • Mathematically

• Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Enthusiasm
  • Accused