C.P. Cavafy Quotes

If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

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• I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • Years
  • Be Careful

• Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Message
  • Reflect
  • Be Careful

• I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Family
  • Rich
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• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Believe
  • Job
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• Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Long
  • Red
  • Ignorance

• We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Actions
  • Citizens
  • Be Careful

• Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

  

  John Hurt
  • People

• To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Perfect
  • Human
  • Emotion

• I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Universe
  • Careful

• After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Knows

• Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!

  

  An Na
  • Cutting
  • I Can
  • Half

• I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Should

• When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good
  • Age
  • Used

• Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Power

• I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Careful

• O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Rock

• There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Trying
  • Scene
  • Careful

• There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Should
  • Pluralism
  • Be Careful

• All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Men
  • Action
  • Desire

• Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
  • Praise
  • Advise
  • Attach

• In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Children
  • Failure
  • Learn

• The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Prevent
  • Gashford
  • Fusing

• If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Careful
  • Be Careful
  • Eminence