Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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• Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• Pride the first peer and president of hell.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Pride
  • First
  • Hell

• People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Gift
  • Birthday

• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Effort

• I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Done
  • Think
  • Government

• A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror
  • Beautiful Woman

• The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Great
  • Fall
  • Accomplishment

• All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Rest

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Good

• I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Moving

• When you are young, you are a little naive.

  

  Maria Sharapova

• One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Moments
  • Victory
  • Presidential

• I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Live
  • Summer

• Every show I've been on, my kids pay no attention. They're just like, 'Who cares. It's just dad's job.'

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Up
  • Question
  • Technology

• It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Job

• And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Power
  • Together

• The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

  

  Kabir
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Health insurance in Germany continues with no change if you lose a job. We do know very well that people who become unemployed are at an increased risk of becoming ill, and therefore becoming unemployed is about the worst time to lose health insurance. So therefore, everyone who loses a job remains in exactly the same insurance system he is in.

  

  Karl Lauterbach
  • People
  • Risk
  • Insurance

• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Like
  • inspirational
  • Kiss

• Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Age
  • Risk
  • Mind Cure