Carol Ryrie Brink Quotes

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Carol Ryrie Brink

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• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Laugh
  • Hardest

• When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Everybody

• I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Comedy

• Everybody's a specialist.

  

  Hal Hartley

• The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Courage
  • Obstacles

• We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Control
  • Motivational

• I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

  

  Tzipi Livni
  • Words
  • Serious
  • Moral

• And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Conversation
  • Foolish
  • Criminal

• As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Lawyer

• There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Single

• A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.

  

  Adele Exarchopoulos
  • Art
  • Challenge
  • Sex

• We have learned nothing from the genome.

  

  Craig Venter
  • Genome

• I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Company
  • Phone
  • Opposite

• Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • Worry
  • Winning
  • Magic

• It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.

  

  Kate DeAraugo
  • Years
  • Finals
  • Idols

• Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Important
  • Today
  • Mood

• The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Children
  • Persons

• Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Persons
  • Rule
  • Court

• The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

  

  Carol Ryrie Brink
  • Persons
  • Praise
  • Rewards