Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
Quotes to Explore
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.
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Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
