Celia Green Quotes

It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

Celia Green

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• Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Partner
  • Well
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• I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feel

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
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• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Never
  • Same

• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Death
  • Living
  • Dead

• Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Party

• She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • She
  • Tree

• One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Education
  • Goals

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Good
  • Children
  • America

• I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

  

  Matt Holliday
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Amazing
  • Romantic

• The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

  

  Philip Pullman

• Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Up

• Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is what we're going to do today, shoop shoop shoop shoop,' and everybody's minds were in the same direction.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Work
  • Today

• We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

  

  Marcel Proust

• I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Architect
  • Regrets
  • Cars

• This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Plato

• My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Nature

• It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

  

  Celia Green
  • Humble
  • Willing
  • Behalf