George Hackenschmidt Quotes

One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

George Hackenschmidt

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• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Never
  • Violence

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Believe
  • House
  • Church

• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Truth

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Republican
  • Candidate

• I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Politics

• In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Business
  • Film
  • Honor

• I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Work
  • Interview
  • Restless

• I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Home
  • Society

• Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Beauty

• I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • You
  • Know

• When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Kids
  • Band

• I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Business
  • End
  • Corruption

• I'm not getting frustrated... we all knew from the start that this would be a long process.

  

  Dick Spring
  • Long

• We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Party
  • Steps
  • Unions

• So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Horse

• Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Earth

• One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

  

  George Hackenschmidt
  • Energy
  • Fate
  • Tranquility