William B. Ogden Quotes

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

William B. Ogden

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• I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Long
  • Running
  • Feel

• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Shoes
  • Start

• I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Professional
  • Successful
  • Economists

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Up
  • Country
  • Language

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Family
  • Dream

• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Teacher

• Everything I publish is for my readers.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Everything
  • Readers
  • Publish

• I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Up
  • May
  • Past

• Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • God
  • Daily
  • Strength

• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Different
  • Beauty
  • Win

• I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Know
  • Choice
  • Appreciation

• We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Cutting
  • Inflow
  • Cutting off

• A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Knowledge
  • Vanity
  • Preserve

• Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Live
  • Book
  • Space

• The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Circumstances

• I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • American

• The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

  

  William B. Ogden
  • Simple
  • Hands
  • Conscience