Yehudi Menuhin Quotes

It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

Yehudi Menuhin

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• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Aid
  • Foreign Aid

• I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Fun
  • Wish
  • Internet

• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Dog

• From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Perspective
  • Born
  • Try

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Thank You

• I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Money
  • Never
  • Will

• Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Technology
  • Economic
  • Europe

• Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Soul
  • Want
  • Imagination

• I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Learned
  • Unknown

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  Ferdinand de Saussure

• If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. - Did you mean hittin' it... or throwin' it?

  

  Walt Kelly

• In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• The cynic says 'blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.' I say 'blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed.'

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Blessed

• Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Men
  • Wishes

• I want to be the top man in our sport. I want to be that guy everyone wants to see skate.

  

  Max Aaron
  • Guy

• I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Drinking
  • Beer
  • Smoking

• I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Dark

• A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, 'It lightens and it thunders,' is conjunctive, 'It lightens or it thunders' is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • May
  • Taken

• It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin