Bergen Evans Quotes

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Bergen Evans

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• When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Parents
  • Body
  • Same

• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Person
  • Illusion
  • Meet

• I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.

  

  Rachael Price
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Love
  • Mood
  • Taciturn

• The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

  

  John Wilbanks
  • Broken
  • Opposites

• I loved talking to Sam Hodges. He was always very interesting, and I felt like I learned something every time I talked to him. I thought he was a fascinating man - maybe tough to work for, but he knew his business. He was extremely intelligent and fun to talk to.

  

  John Young
  • Fun
  • Loved
  • Learned

• Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

  

  George Clooney
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Worst

• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Evil

• Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Honor
  • Victory

• I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Discover
  • Cause
  • Properties

• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Country
  • Dream
  • Brain

• I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Up

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Virtue
  • Vice