Richard Whately Quotes

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Richard Whately

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• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Funny
  • Finding

• You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • You

• I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Life
  • Why
  • Me

• When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • Become
  • Bewildered

• In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Women
  • Country
  • Model

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Time
  • Professional

• When I'm at my best, I'm wearing a 6. When you see yourself pick out the 6... you want to wear the tags on the outside of your clothes.

  

  Kirstie Alley

• I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Good
  • Long
  • Trying

• If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.

  

  Logan Marshall-Green
  • Life
  • World
  • Today

• The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

  

  Lynn Davies

• I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Soul
  • Focus
  • Dark

• The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

  

  Jefferson Mays
  • Character

• When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

  

  Jean Pigozzi
  • May
  • Picture

• Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

  Mark Spitz
  • Winning
  • Swimming

• And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Work
  • God
  • Money

• Perhaps if they're not happy here they can go back to Iran and try their luck with ayatollahs, if they don't like the planning regime or my approach.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Happy
  • Luck
  • Planning

• It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

  

  Kevin James
  • Up
  • Athlete
  • Tough

• I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Children
  • Industry
  • Fortune