Bergen Evans Quotes

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Bergen Evans

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• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • You
  • Never
  • Model

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Right
  • Bird
  • Middle

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Ideas

• The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Truth
  • Question

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Angry

• At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • May
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Stress

• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • Shadow

• Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Hero

• Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

  

  Lloyd Bentsen
  • Friend

• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Hands
  • Rain
  • Architectural

• Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Judge
  • Our Minds

• A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

  

  Emily Mitchell
  • Laughter
  • Darkness
  • Find A Way

• If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)

  

  Abdel Hakim Abdel Samad Kamel
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Wisdom
  • Madness
  • Cynicism