Eva Le Gallienne Quotes

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

Eva Le Gallienne

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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • History
  • Today
  • Nation

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Work
  • Police
  • Criticism

• Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • You
  • Story
  • Discipline

• I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Her

• Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Together
  • Death

• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People
  • Opportunity

• The maxims of men reveal their characters.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Men

• Here, in low earth orbit, we're going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Earth

• You're clearing your mind during a workout. Boxing is a great sport for girls; it's really safe.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Boxing

• I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Great
  • Writing

• Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?

  

  David Chang
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Success
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• The Lyme disease had so severely affected my brain functioning that it was extremely hard for me to think, form sentences, and stay focused.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Brain

• Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Important
  • Technology

• We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I'm a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, 'I'm gonna do it.'

  

  Megyn Price
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Running

• People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

  

  Eva Le Gallienne
  • People
  • Hate
  • Destroy