Alexandra David-Neel Quotes

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Alexandra David-Neel

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• I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Up
  • Live
  • Women

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Try
  • One Word

• I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Want
  • Talk

• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Play
  • Games

• The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • House
  • Random
  • Wednesday

• Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Know
  • Fight

• If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • You
  • Risk

• Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • King
  • Forget

• I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Freedom
  • Afraid
  • Fantasy

• 'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Women
  • Character

• I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Experience

• Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Question
  • Party
  • Italian

• L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Innocent

• Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

  

  Buffalo Bill

• I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

  Charles B. Rangel

• In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Technology

• Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Music

• If you feel like you have no other option in life but to follow your musical path, then do it. If you are talented and focus all your energy on becoming better and furthering your career and never give up, something will happen. I'm not sure what will happen, but it is guaranteed that you will do more than if you didn't do all that.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Up
  • Career

• I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Feelings
  • Intelligent

• I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Black
  • Learning

• Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

  

  Alexandra David-Neel
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • Souls