Adeline Yen Mah Quotes

Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

Adeline Yen Mah

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• The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Society
  • Color
  • Daily

• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Man
  • Democracy
  • saw

• I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Question
  • About
  • Antisocial

• Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Children
  • Think
  • Understanding

• I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Food

• Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Beat

• I love music; it's my passion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Love
  • Passion

• Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Dad

• You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • History
  • Understanding

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

  

  Marc Ostrofsky
  • Present

• The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • World

• Having 'The Ultimate Fighter' was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That's what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn't have worked out better.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Live
  • Fighting

• I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

  

  Megan Hilty

• I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

  

  James Brown
  • Want
  • Success
  • Use

• I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Husband
  • Blind
  • Blindness

• Often people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine. So they'll be saying, "Do another one like that," but you liked that one because it's real. So as long as I keep it real and I do something that's real to me, you're going to feel it in the same way.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Genuine

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

  

  John Wesley
  • God
  • Mind
  • America

• Asperger's doesn't define me. It's a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.

  

  Susan Boyle
  • Understanding
  • Condition
  • Define

• You will revenge my father's death and we will be one tribe across the face of the plains, one people. As it should always have been. Let the Tartars fear us then. Let the Chin fear us.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Father
  • Death
  • Fear

• Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

  

  Adeline Yen Mah
  • Revenge
  • Keep
  • Wounds