Baltasar Gracian Quotes

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Baltasar Gracian

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Inspire
  • Bold
  • Timidity

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Beautiful
  • Green
  • Tourism

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Play
  • See

• I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Government
  • Military

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Spiritual
  • Start

• A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

  

  Quintilian
  • Virtue
  • Laugh
  • Too Much

• I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

  

  Kirby Bliss Blanton
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Family

• Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Life
  • Art
  • Feelings

• We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Healthy

• There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Friends
  • Ideas
  • Self