Abraham Verghese Quotes

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Me
  • Eyes

• I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Food
  • Universe

• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • May
  • Father

• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Doing

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Law
  • Building

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Marriage
  • Husband
  • Dreams

• When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• I have the strange ability to shut things out.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Strange

• Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Money
  • Today
  • Economy

• Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Looking Forward
  • Shah Rukh Khan

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Rights
  • Where
  • Limit

• Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Career
  • Safety

• Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strong
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt.

  

  James Clavell
  • Die

• The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,- That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee.

  

  Aubrey Thomas de Vere
  • Love
  • Spirit
  • Warrior

• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fascinated