Buddy Wakefield Quotes

If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

Buddy Wakefield

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• Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Believe

• Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • God
  • Future
  • Chance

• We believe most investors are more focused on Monday's analyst meeting in (New York) rather than near-term earnings.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Believe
  • Monday
  • Investors

• I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Young
  • Died

• Everyone hates war, everyone says.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • War
  • Hate

• I don't remember [when I first visited the Berlin Zoological Garden]. To me, it was important that [in Germany] I could drink Coca Cola. In Romania, my father had bought me a bottle every now and then. To me, that was something really special. And mom and dad always told me, 'We are going somewhere you can drink as much Coke as you want'. To this day, Coke means so much more to me.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Father

• I have to concentrate on my son. That's why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don't want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person's gonna stay.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Why
  • Son
  • Boyfriend

• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Words
  • Vegas
  • Pizza

• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • God
  • Obstacles

• We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Bad

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  

  William James
  • Success
  • Positive
  • Successful

• Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Fire
  • Virtue
  • Treading

• Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Courage
  • Strength

• And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Drink
  • Beer
  • Felony

• Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Vain
  • Hood

• Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Real
  • Social
  • Terror

• The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

  

  Joy Fielding
  • Control
  • Give Up
  • Reaching

• Everything you do in life is a process that you work at it, and you can't give up.

  

  Nick Foles
  • Life
  • Process
  • Give Up

• Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Control
  • Laugh
  • Reasons

• If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Give Up
  • Get Up