Saul Bellow Quotes

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

Saul Bellow

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  

  Lactantius
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Living

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Art
  • Parents
  • Artist

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Long
  • You
  • Happen

• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
  • Struggle
  • Angry

• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Will
  • Angel
  • Hear

• I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fight
  • Vacation
  • Much

• As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Always
  • Champion
  • Involved

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Fly

• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • True
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Story
  • Modern
  • Myth

• And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy

• I think about what I've accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I'm accomplishing my goals.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Career
  • Goals

• I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Music
  • Age

• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Age
  • Me
  • Mom

• We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Age
  • Realizing
  • Generous