Tom Stoppard Quotes

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

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• I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Win
  • My Life

• The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Grateful

• It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Why
  • History
  • Movie

• Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Know
  • Government
  • Posture

• There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Good

• I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Life
  • Fun

• I always aimed at being a legend.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Legend

• The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Nature
  • Society

• The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Life
  • Sex

• Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • World
  • Important
  • Age

• I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Done
  • Spanish
  • Grandma

• What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Alexei Mordashov

• I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.

  

  Frida Giannini
  • Parents
  • Memories

• I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

  

  Donald Davis
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hope

• I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

  

  Kay Granger
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Silence
  • Kindness
  • Ungrateful

• This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Business
  • Together

• come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Mind
  • Understanding
  • Air

• I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Guy
  • Average
  • Claims

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Posture
  • Configuration