William Henry Chase Quotes

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

William Henry Chase

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• A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • True
  • Champion
  • Watching

• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Two
  • Snow
  • London

• Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Long
  • Health
  • Thought

• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Ideas
  • End
  • First

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Mind
  • Meditation

• I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • City
  • Myself
  • Process

• My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Best
  • Ballet
  • Dancing

• In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Song
  • Past

• I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Cool
  • Better
  • Guys

• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Age

• Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I would give anything to escape myself, Flynn thought, just for a day, just for a minute even. Just to know what it was like to think differently, to feel differently, and to not be me.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Love
  • Revolution

• I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Poor

• Only once did I make Shireen sit down with me for a formal interview. She talked about the need to rebuild what she called "the culture of resistance" that she remembered experiencing during the Second Intifada, but which had since evaporated, replaced by a dull consumerist individualism, by "this illusion that if I forget about Palestine, build a career, take a loan, buy a car, build a house, watch Arab Idol on TV, it's all be okay; that if they're not raiding *your* house, you're okay." In a culture constructed around a shared goal of liberation, she said, "my house is your house and your son is my son and if they kill me today they will kill you tomorrow.

  

  Ben Ehrenreich
  • House
  • Culture
  • Son

• Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.

  

  Garchen Rinpoche
  • Enlightenment
  • Attachment
  • Blocking

• The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

  

  William Henry Chase
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Intelligence