Bernard Berenson Quotes

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Bernard Berenson

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• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

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• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

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• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  

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• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  

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• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  

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• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

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• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

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• God is decisively drawn to the humble.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
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• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

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• I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

  

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• In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.

  

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  • Something
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• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

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• There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.

  

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• The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

  

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• 'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

  

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  • Up
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• Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

  

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• I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion.

  

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• My strength is my enthusiasm.

  

  Placido Domingo

• I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.

  

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• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

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• Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Believe
  • Miracles
  • Virgin Mary