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

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

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Everybody

• 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

• 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

• Religion is using everything for God.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Religion
  • Using

• Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always ‘Lennox should react, not think’. But that’s nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Image
  • Intellectual
  • Boxer

• . . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

  

  Plato
  • Triumph
  • Examining
  • False Idol

• As a woman now, I want to share things. I have girlfriends in their twenties, and I say, "Ask me anything. You can learn from the things I did wrong, and you can learn from the things you think I'm doing right. Take whatever you want and make it your own."

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Want
  • Woman
  • Learn

• The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Hurt

• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Persons
  • Desires

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

  

  Carol Ryrie Brink
  • Persons
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